Save stack as...

[Ken Ray]

Happy Birthday, Shari!  Have a great one...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shari" <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Save stack as...


> >Try:
> >
> >-- assumes 'streetStack' is the full filename to the stack
> >lock messages
> >open inv stack streetStack
> >put the gVersion of stack streetStack into origStack
> >close stack streetStack -- make sure destroyStack/destroywindow are true
> >delete file streetStack
> >save stack newGold as streetStack
> >
> >Ken Ray
> >Sons of Thunder Software
> >Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> >Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> 
> Didn't quite do it but it gave me ideas to try.  My next programming 
> day is Wednesday, so I'll be quiet for a few days :-)
> 
> I did solve a biggie today :-)  One of my beta testers for Phase I 
> reported that "nothing worked".  Talk about a bummer.  And on my 
> birthday of all days.
> 
> He was testing on OSX and my first thought was, oh man, you mean it 
> doesn't work on OSX??
> 
> But he tried the Classic version and got the same result (bigger 
> bummer, you mean it only works on MY computer????)
> 
> But it turned out to be a very small bug.  An option he chose that 
> put 0 into a variable that should have been a very large number.
> 
> He figured it out on his own, to uncheck that option, and now he's 
> happily testing away :-)
> 
> Interesting that my best luck with beta testers always come from my 
> Macintosh Users Group.  So far I've gotten not one word of feedback 
> from the beta testers who surfed into my website and applied.
> 
> I'm sitting on the Windows version until I know all is well with the 
> Mac version.  Decided it's better to get one of them out the door, 
> and THEN take time for the other one.
> 
> Current project (streetStack etc.) is a plug in for Phase I.  An 
> addition.  Rather than trusting people to install the newer stacks 
> (they may have a combination, where this stack is newer but that one 
> is older), I'm creating an installer button that deletes the oldest 
> stacks and replaces with the newest ones.
> 
> Well I'm off to celebrate my birthday :-)
> 
> Shari C
> 
> 
> 
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