On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:00 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 2/19/11 12:41 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> 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. > > Possibly because it's one of those things that "everybody knows", alongo the > lines of "don't use a hair dryer in the bathtub." There has never been any > OS that allowed executables to save to themselves, with the single exception > of OS 9, and that OS has been obsolete for over a decade. I'm not sure the > idea would even occur to any non-Mac developers (but what do I know.) > > I wonder how prominently this is stressed in other programming languages. > Would developers in C or Basic even think to try to save data to an > executable? > > Still, I agree it should probably be mentioned somewhere easily found.
The main inconvenient of saving data in the standalone comes when you go to the client with a smile and a new version and explain to him that you are going to update it's application and in consequence, that he will lose all it's data. One day a genius has think to separate the data from the standalone, and the light comes to all the developer community. Bless him! Best regards, -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8) http://www.aslugontheroad.co.cc _______________________________________________ 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
