Actually I never quit LC. I duplicate the file in Finder and then rename
the one I was working on, which is still open in memory.
I don't often use Save As but when I do I don't see a second copy of the
stack. But I did notice once that when manually removing a stack from
memory it doesn't always remove the datagrid libraries. I wonder if that's
related.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On October 8, 2021 8:55:44 AM Mark Smith via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Oct 7, 2021, at 5:28 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
As I said, this isn't anything to do with 'Save As' specifically - 'Save
As' is doing precisely what you would expect... i.e. Saving the stackfile
to a different file, and just as when you do that in any other application
the filename of the stack changes to be the new filename.
Hi Mark,
This has often puzzled me, but when I use 'Save As’ most of the time this
leaves me with 2 stacks in memory, which, if both have the same DG in them,
is sort of a no-no situation in LC (the IDE cannot distinguish between 2
stacks with the same name etc...). Here’s my workflow: generally I append a
sequential number anytime I am going to attempt something new or
substantial, so I can easily rollback. Say I am working on VER50. I decide
to add a new feature but think I may screw it up. In VER50 I rename the
stack to VER51 (change the stack name) and then save it using 'Save As' as
VER51 (usually in a new folder). In such a scenario I would expect to have
1 stack in memory, now called VER51. But I don’t. I have 2 identical stacks
(same # of script lines) one named VER50 and another named VER51. To avoid
potential cross contamination I have to quit LC and restart with VER51.
OR, I could do as Jacque suggests and quit LC, copy VER50 to VER51 on disk
and then open VER51. Either way requires quitting and relaunching LC. But,
if I was in MS Word and copied an open file from VER50 to VER51 and looked
under the Window menu I would see only 1 file named VER51. VER50 is safely
tucked away, ne'er to be effected if I screw up 51. I’m not sure if there
is a good reason why LC behaves differently.
Mark
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