Unable to get saved preferences file into a standalone at launched

[Mike Bonner]

After glancing through your description of the problem, I believe you
gave yourself the answer.  You said that when you launch your app, the
prefs aren't loaded until you manually open and then close the prefs
stack. This is because you have the call to do so in the prefs stack
itself and unless you open it, the preopenstack handler in it doesn't
fire.  You open the prefs stack, and viola' it fires and everything is
peachy.

I'm not sure its the best way, but if you have a preopenstack handler
in your app stack, and have it check for a preferences file and do the
load itself, then the problem should be solved.  If the preferences
file doesn't exist, load the preferences stack, get the user to fill
it in, and when the prefs are saved, tell the appstack to try and
reload the preferences file.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:33 AM, charles61 <cszasz at mac.com> wrote:
>
> I have two stacks: a splash and an app stack (S504). I have a stack "prefs"
> which is part of the app stack. The Prefs stack is not moved out as a
> separate stack when the standalone is made. I used an installer to install
> my program in the AllUsersAppData directory for windows Xp.
>
> When I run the installed Window app, I open the Prefs stack and entered
> information into six fields: myCounty, school system, site, agent, contact
> and email. I closed the Prefs stack and then quit my app. When I relaunched
> my app, the fields cited above are not filled in my app. But I open the
> Prefs stack, the fields are filled in. When I closed the Prefs stack, then
> the fields in my app are filled.
>
> I would appreciate suggestions on how I can get my preferences into my app!
>
> I have the following script in my Prefs stack:
>
> on preOpenStack
>   set the loc of me to the loc of stack "S504"
>   loadPrefs
> end preOpenStack
>
> on closeStack
>   saveprefs
> end closeStack
>
> on loadPrefs pFilename
>   local tPrefs
>
>   --   put url ("binfile:" & pFilename) into tPrefs
>   IF the platform is "MacOS"
>   then
>      put url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("preferences") & "/" &
> "S504_prefs") into tPrefs
>   end if
>
>   IF the platform is "win32"
>   then
>      put url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath(26) & "/" & "S504_prefs") into
> tPrefs
>   end if
>
>   put arrayDecode(tPrefs) into tPrefs
>
>   -- now fill in all my data...
>   put tPrefs["county"] into field "myCounty" of card id 1002 of stack
> "prefs"
>   put tPrefs["county"] into field "school system" of card "referral" of
> stack "S504"
>   --   put tPrefs["county"] into field "site" of card "adult" of stack
> "S504"
>
>   put tPrefs["school"] into field "mySchool" of card id 1002 of stack
> "prefs"
>   put tPrefs["school"] into field "school" of card "referral" of stack
> "S504"
>   put tPrefs["school"] into field "site" of card "adult" of stack "S504"
>
>   put tPrefs["agent"] into field "agent" of card id 1002 of stack "prefs"
>   put tPrefs["agent"] into field "agent" of card "letter" of stack "S504"
>   put tPrefs["agent"] into field "agent" of card "adult letter" of stack
> "S504"
>
>   put tPrefs["contact"] into field "contact" of card id 1002 of stack
> "prefs"
>   put tPrefs["contact"] into field "contact" of card "letter" of stack
> "S504"
>   put tPrefs["contact"] into field "contact" of card "adult letter" of
> stack "S504"
>
>   put tPrefs["email"] into field "email" of card id 1002 of stack "prefs"
>   put tPrefs["email"] into field "email" of card "letter" of stack "S504"
>   put tPrefs["email"] into field "email" of card "adult letter" of stack
> "S504"
> end loadPrefs
>
> on savePrefs pFilename
>   local tPrefs
>
>   --Fill in all of my data
>   put field "myCounty" into tPrefs["county"]
>   put field "mySchool" into tPrefs["school"]
>   put field "agent" into tPrefs["agent"]
>   put field "contact" into tPrefs["contact"]
>   put field "email" into tPrefs["email"]
>
>   IF the platform is "MacOS"
>   then
>      put arrayEncode(tPrefs) into url ("binfile:" &
> specialFolderPath("preferences") & "/" & "S504_prefs")
>
>   end if
>
>   IF the platform is "win32"
>   then
>      put arrayEncode(tPrefs) into url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath(26) &
> "/" & "S504_prefs")
>
>   end if
>
> end savePrefs
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