Difference between XP and Vista/7?

[David Glasgow]

On 2 Nov 2009, at 1:24 pm, Lars Brehmer wrote:

> In newer versions does in mention in the sandalone settings that  
> just adding stacks in Vista / 7 will not allow changes to those  
> stacks?

As far as I can tell about what you are reporting, this is a Vista  
Thing, not  Rev Thing.

In the old pre OS X days, the folder containing an App also tended to  
contain data, docs and whatnot.  All users could run the Apps and  
save data in the enclosing folder.  Apple then bought into the idea  
which had been around for a long time that all Apps should live in  
one place, all data somewhere else (where depending on the sort of  
data it was) - hence the docs folder and app folder.

On Windows it has long been possible for a user to have the privilege  
to run exes, but not write to the folder containing the exe - and in  
these cases ether the save location or the privileges had to change.   
However, XP and earlier were kind of sloppy about this, and it was  
easier to fix privileges on a per user basis than stick to saving  
things where they 'ought' to be.

Vista is not sloppy, but slippery.  Rather than complaining that data  
can't be written, triggering an error or hanging your standalone, it  
will obligingly write your data to somewhere else, and pretend it has  
done what you ask.  Your Rev program has no way of knowing where the  
data has gone, but it sure won't be there when you try to look for it  
later!  What you will find is your original unchanged stack(s).

So, you can save changes to stacks in Vista just don't try to do it  
in the Program directory.  You can have the stacks initially load  
from the program directory, or from a custom property (see Klaus  
Majors recent post Re: Where to place (sub)stacks?) and you can use  
specialfolderpath to save elsewhere after the stacks have been  
changed. Often the script can be made to work the same cross  
platform, although depending on what it is you want to save, you  
might not find an entirely satisfactory place for it to go on Vista,  
and I assume Vista 2.0 errr... I mean Win 7.

David Glasgow