David You database will run fine inside LiveCode but needs to be adapted to use the techniques in Lesson 35 - "Saving Documents in Standalones" to work inside a standalone.
Hope this helps. Peter http://LiveCode1001.blogspot.com On 7 Sep 2013, at 14:04, David Milne wrote: > I wonder whether any one can help me please? > I tried out the "Simple Database" lesson 18 from the App_Academy_eBook. > All was going well until I made a standalone version of "Simple Database" > for Mac. > > Unfortunately, all additions or changes to the "Simple Database" are lost > on closing the stand alone version and then opening it again. > Not much use for a database application. > > It is a good thing that I did not tell anybody about it, and the power of > LiveCode to make up a "Simple Database". They would all be laughing by now. > > Any advice about how to fix this demonstration program so that it is > actually useful would be very much appreciated. > > As well as making a standalone of the "Simple Database" program, I had also > made a standalone version of a slightly different version of that program, > tailored to a little job I wanted to do, but both applications are > disappointingly useless. > > Regards > David Milne > _______________________________________________ > 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