RESTRAINING THE PENCIL IN REV

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Sep 21 03:46:42 EDT 2008


Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> I've got most all of my problems resolved. Except  
> Saving doesn't work as I'd like it to - for the standalones. The user  
> is allowed to color pictures with the paint bucket, and they can print  
> it, but haven't figured out a way that they can save what they've  
> done. I don't think it can be done, since we've never been able to  
> change the running apps, but I keep trying to find a way around that  
> limitation.

Most Mac apps never write to themselves; it's not even possible on Win 
or Linux.

Think documents.  That's where users store their work.

ImageData can be written out as an image file.  For more complex needs 
stack files can be used as documents.

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