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Have you seen Andre Garzia's Remote DB Lib?
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29338

Given the challenges with setting up MySQL on each machine, with a lib as handy as that one it might even be simpler to make this client-server.

ive never had any problems setting up mySQL. its an easy install but yes i agree that an internal DB would be preferable but its just i use mySQL all the time and like it lol

Dunbarx: Could you please post an example of an uncompiled splash stack and its simple working stack in v6 format. As I understand it, there are several variations of this standalone strategy. Thank you. Terry

Well, while your waiting for Dunbarx's super snazzy launcher, here is about the simplest version boiled down I could think of. This is one stack that you save as a standalone, and the other stack is just sitting in the same folder. The only other variation I can think of is exactly what Craig said here:

dunbarx wrote:You make a small stack that may have absolutely nothing on it or in it. Name it "splash".
...In the standalone settings for this stack you can add other stack files to your heart's content . Those stack files contain "working" stacks (and substacks).
...The stack "splash", upon opening, navigates to one or more of those other stacks. It can hide itself. ALL those other stacks can save their data between sessions. So the splash stack becomes the executable, "carrying" along with it other stacks that actually do the stuff you likely worked in the IDE.

Craig

IF you use that method, ignore the lines that say "close this stack"

When you go to save the standalone, *only* do the launchMyStack stack, leave the "simplelaunchedstack" one as a stack (not compiled).
You may have to change the standalone settings, I have it set to linux on my system. Hope it helps

OK.

So I made a brilliant demo standalone, but it is too large, even zipped, to attach. I almost never attach files. So I am attaching the actual stacks, which you must then make into a standalone. But if you examine them, you will see that you could make something similar in about three minutes. The "splasher" is the splash, and the "worker" is the stack file that you would attach in the standalone settings of "splasher".

Limits for the Mac and Windows standalone are 2MB and 200KB respectively. Is this usual? The stacks, of course, are much smaller. So do others never attach actual standalones?

Craig

<Busily downloading Craig's demo > um, I try to never attach a standalone, but then, I rarely attach anything but pictures