David Burgun wrote:the stack that has been turned into a standalone CANNOT be "saved as..."! Simply because the stack IS now the standalone.
Then PLEASE could someone just tell me how I save a Standalone Stack PLEASE!!! I've been asking questions about this all day and I'm just going round and round and round in circles.
He did: executable files on Windows and UNIX cannot modify themselves. The Mac version of Rev enforces this for consistency.
Well that's fine and understandable, but it still doesn't tell me how to save a stack when I have made a Standalone! But I still don't see how that answers my question - "Then PLEASE could someone just tell me how I save a Standalone Stack PLEASE!!!".
It's been a long day, maybe I'm just being dumb!
You could, however, use the clone command to clone the stack, using answer file to set the stack's filename property and then save the clone.
I don't understand this, why would I have to use the "answer file" command? But given that I don't.
This is how I assume it would work:
Given that this is a Standalone App, when it is first loaded, it checks to see if there is a "CurrentControls.rev" file. If there is, then I want to use it as the current stack to operare on. If there isn't, then I want to clone the current stack (which will be the main stack and all it's substacks) and put that into a file called "CurrentControls.rev". At certain points during execution of the standalone, I want to save back the current control values and put them into "CurrentControls.rev". If the user quits, I want to again save the settings into "CurrentControls.rev" and have them be used when the standalone is next launched by the user.
Can I do this using the clone stack, save stack etc. commands?
Things that worry me from reading the "clone" page in the dictionary:
1. If the object is a stack, the newly created stack is opened. It is named "copy of" and the stack's name.
Won't this cause some flickering when the Standalone is launched. If I hide the current stack, will the new stack be hidden too? I am guessing it will since it says it copies all the properties of the object being cloned.
2. Does the clone command, clone all the substacks in the stack? The dictionary page doesn't say.
3. From the Dictionary:
When the new control is created, the Pointer tool is automatically chosen. If you use the clone command in a handler, you can use the following statement after the clone command to resume using the Browse tool:
send "choose browse tool" to me in 1 tick"
Which makes me think this won't work with a standalone.
If it does, then I am guessing I don't need to send the message, correct?
If I can use the clone command, then I am guessing that the code ai need would be something like this:
on mouseUp
if the environment is not "development" then
put "CurrentControls.rev: into myNewStackName
put the filename of this stack into myStackFilePathName
set itemDelimiter to "/"
delete last item of myStackFilePathName
put "/" & myNewStackName & ".rev" after myStackFilePathName
clone this stack
set the name of it to myNewStackName
answer "Save?" with "Cancel" or "Save" if it is "Save" then
beep save stack myNewStackName as myStackFilePathName
close this stack
end if
end if
end mouseUp
Is this correct?
Thanks again! All the Best Dave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
