BAM: download it, run it locally, store it anywhere

[CharlieJV]

Dang! My Hello 2 program disappeared??

Did you not save BAM to overwrite the previously downloaded one?

About "Save"

   

BAM (the IDE, the tools, everything) and programs all exist in one HTML file.

That "Save" button works like like "Save As" in wordprocessors/etc.  It is meant to take BAM in its current state (settings, programs, everything) and save it to overwrite the previous HTML file or save it to a new file (backup/archive/versioning/whatever.)

(In reality that "Save" button does a download of BAM as it is in its current state.  I just think of it as "Save As".)

So when you open your local instance of BAM and enter a new program, you save the whole kit and caboodle over the previous file or to a new file.

As any javascript running in a web browser, it has no access to the file system (and it should never have access to the file system.)   So no autosaving, all manually done (as a download/save-as).

Good grief, I think I'm spinning in circles trying to explain all of that ...  Easy to do day in and day out, but I'm having a devil of a time explaining it.