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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?

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