I am trying to knock together a quick contacts application for my desktop. I am fedup with the slow and over complex Outlook and the like, stuff.
The simple stack produced by Tactile media "Contact x" is sufficient, but appears only to function as a stack and not as a standalone. This is because you cannot save or delete data (permanantly) in the standalone. So new or deleted records are lost when re-starting the application.
Saving and restoring the data from an external file is no problem, except if the number of records is fixed at the time of creating the standalone.
I could assume an adequate number of records and create a standalone on that basis, but the resulting blank cards show up first in the list of contacts names.
So the question is can you add or delete cards in a standalone?
Otherwise, have you any solution to the problem?
Can you add or delete cards in a standalone?
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Re: Can you add or delete cards in a standalone?
Hi,
If you save your stack outside the standalone, as a separate stackfile, e.g. in ~/documents/stack.rev then you will be able to add or delete cards and you won't lose records after saving the stack.
Kind regards,
Mark
If you save your stack outside the standalone, as a separate stackfile, e.g. in ~/documents/stack.rev then you will be able to add or delete cards and you won't lose records after saving the stack.
Kind regards,
Mark
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