Thanks Peter, I gave that a try and I still get the same message. My attempts to create them from scratch were saved as UTF-8 and I’ve tried all the other options in TextEdit as well. I have noticed that if I open a functioning script only stack in ATOM it is identified as UTF-8.
Tim > On Mar 3, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Peter TB Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> wrote: > > On 03/03/2016 17:48, Tim Bleiler wrote: >> In the blog post, Mark states that "The fact that script only stack files >> really are just text files is really important! It means you can edit and >> create them in any text editor you choose, and use any text based processing >> tool on them…” >> >> I’ve been trying to work with script only stacks on Mac OS X 10.11 for a few >> weeks now, at least since Livecode version 8 dp12. If I open one up in >> TextEdit and save it, Livecode gives me the error message: “Unable to open >> stack: File is not a stack”. The only way to recover the script has been to >> copy and paste it from the text editor into a new script only stack script. >> Additionally, I’ve never been able to create one in a text editor from >> scratch without getting the same error message from Livecode when I try to >> open it. I figure I must be doing something wrong because with the team >> using these all the time I don’t see how they wouldn’t have run into this. >> Any suggestions? > > The only thing I can think of to suggest is to make sure that your editor is > saving the file as UTF-16 text. > > Usually script-only stacks start with a UTF-16 byte order mark. > > Peter > > -- > Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> > LiveCode Open Source Team > > LiveCode 2016 Conference https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
