Saving data in standalone

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Thu May 16 20:04:09 EDT 2024


this is also how levure operates, so if you build with levure, you can just
do this with stacks in the project

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> You can save external stacks or created on the fly stacks where ever you
> have *write* (and read) permission on your OS.
>
> Increasingly, whether macOS or Windows, that is not the Applications
> (macOS) or Program Files/Program Files (x86) (Windows) folders. I find
> the SAFEST place to save something is using
> specialFolderPath("documents") and then create a folder structure for
> your company or app in the user's Documents folder. OSes are becoming
> more and more "sandboxed" to prevent malware and dumb user mistakes from
> wrecking apps or the OS itself.
>
>
> On 5/16/2024 4:43 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
> > Craig,
> >
> > Saving: the stacks within the MacOS package and the Windows Applications
> folders can be saved—within that location?
> >
> > Can new stacks/files be written to those same folders?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >> On May 16, 2024, at 4:26 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I did not explicitly mention that any and all of the attached stacks
> are savable.
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>> On May 16, 2024, at 1:31 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 5/16/2024 12:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> >>>> save that stack under a customer file extension
> >>> That should have said "custom file extension"
> >>>
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