sponateneous purging of a backscript?

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 9:01 AM -0700 7/9/2004, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>Yet somehow the RevNet backscript is being purged and I can find 
>neither  of those two circumstances at play.
>
[...]

>A further data point is that this issue has not been reported when 
>using RevNet within the MetaCard IDE, and in spite of my best 
>efforts I've been unable to reproduced the issue here.
>
>I ran a search through the message path for the phrase "remove 
>script", and while I was able to find a few cases where the IDE 
>removes backscripts each one was explicitely removing a specific IDE 
>backscript, so it should not affect any others.
>
>Can you think of anything else that might be causing the backscript 
>to be removed out from under only a very few users yet work fine for 
>everyone else?


You might try a similar search for "delete stack" - in case the IDE 
is removing the stack from memory. (I seem to recall there are a few 
loops that do a delete stack.)

I'd also seriously consider changing the stack name to something that 
doesn't begin with the letters "rev". The IDE assumes all stacks 
starting with this string are part of it, and it can cause unexpected 
behavior (for instance if the IDE is looping through the openStacks 
looking for its own stacks). The fact that you're seeing this in Rev 
but not MetaCard suggests this might be the problem....
-- 
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
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