Erik Hansen wrote:
--- Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Sure - but remember - this started out as ".... if you're desperate enough to need a bad idea ...."
...use a basic text editor and just copy the script code out and paste into a new stack.
(Notepad can't do it, but Emacs has no problem
finding and sensibly interpreting the code parts of a stack).
this sounds ominous,
could you please elaborate?
If you have a stack file that you just can't get into (and of course assuming it's not encrypted, compressed, locked, ....) then you can open it with any text editor that can handle "basic ascii text" and can avoid becoming confused by interspersed bits of binary code. Then you can copy the relevant parts of the script, and paste them into a newly constructed stack.
Tedious - but when you're desperate ...
I've used Emacs on Windows (Paul said Notepad can do it too) to do this when I had a stack that got badly corrupted (along with other things on the same flash-disk - not a Rev problem).
I've also used Pythoncard's "findfiles" utility to do something similar (some day I'll rewrite that into Rev - it's basically a gui front-end to do a recursive file search with regex and a one button way to get into the text editor at the right line). I found this a much faster way to find examples of how to do things in Transcript than any of the tools / docs that came with Runrev.
Hmmm - maybe I should do that now, to postpone tackling that hard problem I'm stuck on for my real project ...
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