It didn't. I set the defaultstack once when the whole thing loaded and again right before creating the field, then had it put the defaultstack into a variable so I could confirm it was correct. The words in the variable were exactly what I wrote on the line (stack "HowstrBeta").
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > If the goal is create an object in a specified stack, does setting the > defaultStack first not work? > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > > > > On 2/15/16, 8:35 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Matt Maier" > <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of bluebac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >As far as I know I didn't make any changes that would explain this. > > > >All of a sudden this line: "create field stack "HowstrBeta" is giving me > >this error "(Chunk: source is not a container), char 1" > > > >After some experimentation and googling I discovered that it would work > >again if I changed that line to this: "create field (the long ID of stack > >"HowstrBeta"). > > > >BTW, it was the same error for two other areas which created graphics > >instead of fields. > > > >Any ideas why Livecode would happily take "create field stack "Whatever"" > >for many months and then suddenly demand it be phrased differently? > >_______________________________________________ > >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