At 7:40 AM -0800 11/9/01, Robert Presender wrote: >Is there a work around? Is it possible to save the entries in a standalone by saving >the standalone as a copy of the standalone? Just downloaded v 1.1 and note the same >limitation applies.
This comes up repeatedly. :-) The Mac is the only platform that allows a running application to be modified (even by itself). Hence the limitation, which isn't unique to Revolution. There are two answers: First, a preferences file, which is pretty much what you suggested and rejected because of complexity. Second, an external stack. Create your application as a minimal stack (making the splash screen the application is common). The meat of your application -- the part that needs to be saved -- is an external stack. You can still go to it, and it will function the same as always, but now you can save it. If you want to ship a single file application, include the external stack in your application, but then when you run check to see if the external stack exists. If it doesn't, save a copy of the one in your application and then go to it. regards, Geoff
