But it's OK to use a hair dryer in the bathtub in the IDE, that's the problem!
Pete Haworth On Feb 19, 2011, at 6:00 PM, J. Landman Gay 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. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
