Thanks for all the great answers. I think I understand but still have some reading and experimenting to do :)
Send from my iPhone On Feb 19, 2011, at 19:41, Peter Haworth <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> This may seem like a curmudgeonly distinction, but we see this often enough >> that it's a source of confusion: > > I don't think it's curmudgeonly at all Richard! > > Having been bitten by this myself, I will admit that it's a pet peeve of mine > that this while issue of the inability to save data in a standalone isn't > emphasised a hell of a lot more in the LC documentation. As you point out, > this isn't an LC restriction, it's an OS restriction but the process of > developing an app in the IDE doesn't reflect that since you can happily have > your data saved by the IDE and there's no clue that you shouldn't expect that > to be the case when you build a standalone, except for a couple of sentences > buried somewhere in the 400 or so pages of the User Guide. And the whole > issue is made more confusing by the mainstack/substack terminology in this > context. > > Experienced LC users know all this of course but this issue crops up time and > time again on this list and on the forum from people who are trying their > best to decipher the LC documentation, think they have it down only to be hit > with this when they build their first standalone and possibly cost them hours > of work figuring out how to deal with it. At least that was my experience. > > Now that's curmudgeonly! > > > Pete Haworth > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
