Just FYI, after searching, testing and debugging for 2 days I created another standalone this morning without changing anything and everything runs smooth as ever. Sometimes it seems to me that LC on windows makes strange things. Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im > Auftrag von Tiemo Hollmann TB > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 16:11 > An: 'How to use LiveCode' > Betreff: AW: Problems with revxml external > > Hello Mark, > thanks for jumping in. > you are right, actually my application is a splash stack, which creates > the standalone and calls my main program in a second stackfile, where I am > using the xml functions (while the splash stack keeps in memory, just > hidden) - which worked fine in the past. > First I tried your suggestion with "start using ..." my splash stack in my > "second stack". It results in the same error. > I couldn't test to make my "second stack" to a substack of my splash > stack, because itself is a main stack with several substacks. > I copied the relevant xml statements from my second stack to my splash > stack in a test button, just for testing and I get the same error already > in my splash stack, where I am sure it is the standalone. > So it seems to be something is going wrong in my splash stack. > Another issue appeared now when closing the standalone after the revxml > functions failed. When closing the application I get from time to time a > windows error "mystandalone for windows doesn't work anymore" (translated > from German). This seems to indicate - for my small knowledge - any kind > of memory issue. Could there be a memory conflict with a custom external > or something like this? (I just can't deactivate the custom external for > testing) > Thanks, Tiemo > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im > > Auftrag von Mark Schonewille > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 15:09 > > An: How to use LiveCode > > Betreff: Re: Problems with revxml external > > > > Dear Tiemo, > > > > Did you attach the external to the stack that is actually used to > > build a standalone? Is it possible that one mainstack is loading the > > external while another mainstack is calling it? Perhaps you can solve > > this by making one stack a substack of the other or by using a > > separate stack that loads all externals and "start using" that stack. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > Mark Schonewille > > > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > > KvK: 50277553 > > > > Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other > > colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com > > > > > > > > On 16 okt 2012, at 12:35, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have problems with the revxml external in an old LC 4.6.2 program > > > on > > W7. > > > > > > Everything worked with my xml functions for a long time without > > problems. > > > Since I worked on an update and made several other changes the > > > revxml seems not to work anymore in a standalone. In IDE everything > > > still works > > fine. > > > > > > I checked the standalone options, selected the XML library manually > > > and also by search for the required inclusions. The revxml external > > > seems to be loaded correct, it shows up in the externalpackages in > > > stack "home" in the IDE and in stack "revExternalLibrary" in my > > > standalone. But calling xml functions, like "revcreateXMLTree()" or > > > "revcreateXMLTreeFromFile()" I just get an "error in function handler" > > as the result. > > > > > > Copying the same piece of code into a fresh new stack and testing > > > the standalone in the same folder (with the revxml.dll in the > > > externals subfolder), everything works correct. So there must be any > > > kind of conflict in my old stack. But I have no idea, where to look > > > for or how to go on testing and debugging. Have you ever encountered > > > such behavior with externals? Could there be a conflict with other > externals? > > > > > > Any ideas where and what to look for highly appreciated. > > > > > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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