How about preceding the name with OT_ or NT_? Bob S
> On Sep 27, 2018, at 12:08 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Some of my client's stacks must begin with names starting with "rev" (i.e., > Bible study, "Revelations".) This of course wreaks havoc in the IDE, aside > from just omitting the stacks from file lists. We have tried setting > gRevDevelopment to true and turning on the option to view IDE stacks, but > lots of other things still fail. Objects can't be selected with the edit tool > and other oddities occur that make the stacks uneditable. > > Temporarily renaming the stack sometimes works, but throws errors all over > the place when scripts try to navigate or use the long ID for other purposes. > > But now something else is occuring, totally unintelligible. Normally two > stacks are open, an index stack "TSMain" and a mainstack "Revelations". When > trying to navigate to Revelations by any method -- opening it from Finder, > clicking the name in the index stack, etc. -- this error is thrown: > > "A stack with the same name as the one you are trying to load is already > open. Before loading > /Users/<name>/Documents/<product>/Revelations.livecode what do you want to do > with stack > /Users/<name>/Documents/<product>/TSMain.livecode, TSMain?" > > Besides the issue that the two "conflicting" stacks do not have the same > name, the TSMain stack is listed twice, once as a full file path followed by > the short name. > > Huh? This is under LC 9.0.1 but also happens in LC 8. > > How would you manage working with a stack whose name starts with "rev"? We > are planning to change the name somehow if we can think of a good substitute, > but for now it needs to stay as-is. And what's the deal with the weird > conflict message? There are no duplicate stacks in RAM. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
