Puzzled about stack size

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Feb 7 15:44:56 EST 2004


Jim Hurley wrote:

> 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.

When the visible eludes, check the less visible:  what's in the custom
property sets for those objects?

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 Richard Gaskin 
 Fourth World Media Corporation
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