Thanks Bob. I had been diddling around with exactly those features when I have managed to make the substitution, but felt a little uneasy that the Destroy Stack might be messing me up in ways that I didn't realize. The name IS unfortunate as you mentioned. Actually, I have an even more exasperating "trial" to deal with. I want to reassemble my program using the existing stacks, but there appears to be no way to severe LC's strangle-hold on things. I'd love to be able to create a new program by dragging copies of the existing stacks over to a new folder and establishing "new" relationships amongst them, but LC is insistent on maintaining the "old" relationships. I'd like to change the standalone application settings of this "new" relationship. So far I have been unsuccessful; just spinning my wheels doing things over and over again.
Regardless, Thanks. If anyone has a clue as to how this last approach may be accomplished I would love to hear about it. Joe Wilkins On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I do not understand exactly what you mean, but I will give it a go. It sounds > like you work with a copy of a stack to update it, then replace the older > copy with the newer one, but LC is remembering the older one. > > There is a property of a stack called destroyStack, an unfortunate name > because it only destroys the copy in memory. I believe the corresponding > checkbox is Purge Stack On Close. If this is unchecked, closing the stack > will still leave it in memory, so that any future reference to it will reopen > it. > > I am unsure if my understanding of what you are doing is correct, but I would > reconsider how you are going about things if you are replacing one stack with > another just like it. In any case, check that checkbox and see if that > doesn't help. > > Bob > > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm struggling; maybe I should say "fighting" with LC. I have an app in >> which I do some things that create new cards in one of the sub-stacks. In >> the process of refining things I want to swap the original stack with the >> one that has the new cards, but LC always remembers the larger stack. After >> a while, I'm usually able to have the smaller one used, but it's a real >> effort. Have I missed some simple way of doing this. In most other programs, >> I would be able to just replace the large one with the small one. I can do >> it in this case too, but the small one is never seen. >> >> TIA, >> >> Joe Wilkins _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
