Hi Richard, My intuition told me as much, and I've been surprised at how easily I'm able to change the data in a Standalone by using an external text file and then changing the text file along the way. My dilemma, now, is that this sub-stack is already part of the standalone, so splitting it off as another stack file may not be so easy. OTOH, it may also solve an issue I now have communicating between that "sub-stack" and the main stack in the standalone. We'll see once I take a look at Sarah's tutorial.
Thanks, Joe Wilkins On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > > > If we create a standalone with a menu item of "New Form" and > > then implement it with a handler script in which we do: clone > > this card, will this create a new card in the Standalone, keeping > > in mind that this will be done in a sub-stack? Also, with a > > matching menu item: Delete Form with the same concern. > > Good news: it's easy to do. > > Bad news: ...but not as a substack. > > A substack of the stackfile that's been made into an executable won't be able > to save changes because the OS prevents executables from modifying themselves. > > So instead all you have to do is what every other app does: keep any stacks > that must be saved in a separate stack file. > > Sarah Reichelt contributed this excellent tutorial on saving data in > standalones to the LiveCode Journal site, which many have found very helpful > for this: > > <http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html> > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution