Message: 5 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:12:07 -0700 From: Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Puzzled about stack size To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
I have many stacks with more controls, longer scripts, a few graphics, and images. Yet they are a fraction of the size of this one DB stack. What could be eating up all this space?
Hi Jim,
No answers, but some thoughts:
* Does the db stack contain externals?
* Does it incorporate a large image or clip?
* Does it incorporate a small image that accidentally had its rect reset?
* Have you opened the stack in the Application Browser and checked the list of controls on each card...including the size of their scripts?
* If you open & close the stack without adding anything to it, does stack size remain static or grow?
If none of that helps, is it feasible to open the stack, delete a card or group, close the stack, check stack size, and repeat the process until you see a dramatic change in stack size? Then you could go back to the card or group you deleted and repeat the process deleting one control at a time. It's tedious, I know, but it should isolate the source of the problem. Perhaps you could write a script that would automate the process? --
Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm
Rob,
Following your suggestion. I deleted one field, a table field that showed empty. The file size dropped from 6 megs to 144 K. (By the way, is there a way to get the file size from within RR?)
I restored the stack to "saved". In the message box I tried:
put the number of lines in field "theField"
The result was zero.
I looked in the property inspector for the field. The "contents" showed empty. I then scrolled down to
"table." There was a long pause and eventually all the data reappeared. In the messages box the number of lines was now 13,234.
I selected the field and press delete. The field showed empty--again. I scrolled down to "table" in the property inspector again and, again, after a long pause, the data was resurrected.
Strange things are happening in table fields. This same thing happens even for small amounts of data.
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