newbie question

[Malte Brill]

Hi Nancy,

I´ll try to answer your questions and hope I am clear enough.

What you will have to do is write a preferences file to the users 
Harddisc where you can store information. This could be a simple text 
file or a stack. The following handler is quite handy for that purpose. 
In the stacks script:

on setPrefs
   global pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile
   switch the platform
   case "MacOS"
     put specialfolderpath("preferences") into spfp
     break
   case "Win32"
     if word 1 of the systemversion = "NT" then
       put specialFolderPath(35) into spfp
     else
       put specialfolderpath("system") into spfp
     end if
     break
   default
     put $Home into spfp
     break
   end switch
   if there is not a folder (spfp & "/yourStackName") \
      then create folder (spfp & "/yourStackName")
   if there is not a file (spfp & "/yourStackName/preferences.dat") then
     create inv stack "preferences.dat"
     save stack "preferences.dat" as (spfp & 
"/yourStackName/preferences.dat")
   end if
   put (spfp & "/yourStackName/preferences.dat") into 
pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile
end setPrefs

(mind linebreaks if there are any)

This script creates a preferences stack on the users Harddisc. Now you 
can start to use that stack to store data about the last position in 
your application.

You might do this in a shutDownRequest handler

on shutDownRequest
   global pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile
  put pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile into thePath
   set the uLastCard of stack thePath to the number of this card
   save stack thePath
end shutDownRequest

You will need to add this to the openStack script of your stack (or the 
first card)

on openstack
   global pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile
   setPrefs
   put pathToYourStackNamePrefsFile into thePath
   if the uLastCard of stack thePath is not empty then
     put the uLastCard of stack thePath into tLastCard
     go cd tLastCard
   end if
end openStack


As I am a long time user I may take things for granted in my 
explanations sometimes, so if there is anything where I am not clear 
enough please ask. :-)

If you want to block unauthorized users from using your application you 
might want to implement a registration mechanism. I have a demo stack 
in my user space on revOnline.

user: Malte
stack: password generator

If there are any questions left please ask...

Hope that helps,

malte