Saving datagrids

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Pete. Everyone...


The DG is in a substack of a mainstack splash screen. There is a field in that substack as well. A button loads a random number into each. Or tries to, anyway. The field gets a new number, the DG does not budge. The IDE stack works fine. The DG template is attached as a stackFile before I make the standalone.


I am talking about saving between standalone sessions. If I change the data, close the standalone, and re-open, the new field data is there. Great. The DG never changed in the first place, so I may have mis-stated the problem. It may not be a matter of saving the DG at all. If I cannot change the DG data  in the first place, who could say?


This all started from a forum question about saving a DG. He could not. I tried a test, and I cannot even modify the DG contents. Did I mention that the field saves just fine?


Craig Newman





-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 5:37 pm
Subject: Re: Saving datagrids


Are we talking about saving data between runs of the standalone or just 
re-opening the stack in the same run of the standalone?  As other have pointed 
out, there is no way to save data between runs of a standalone without the usual 
workaround they mentioned.  But I think datagrids have a "persistant Data" 
property that affects whether the data in them is saved when the stack they are 
in is closed and then re-opened in the same run.

Not sure what's happening with your follow up email about the dg not being 
populated, that sounds very weird.

Pete Haworth

 






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On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:28 AM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> 
> 
> This came up in the forum, trouble saving a datagrid in a standalone.  I 
glibly told the original poster that there should not be any issue.
> 
> 
> To test I made a splash stack and a substack; the usual. The substack has a 
datagrid, a field and a button. The button put random numbers
> into both the datagrid (via setting the dgText) and the field. The stacks are 
saved on closeStack.
> 
> 
> After making the standalone, clicking the button loads data. But only the 
field data is saved. I checked back in the standalone
> settings, and wonder if either I am missing something there, or datagrids do 
not save at all. The forum thread had evolved to having to save the
> datagrid data in an external file, and reloading next session. That seems 
unfair.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
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