Error saving standalone -- revisited yet again

Tue May 10 13:41:20 EDT 2005

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NO!!!!!!

I just backtracked to an older version of my stack (from a backup) and 
tried with that, and it worked!

It looks like my stack file became corrupt somewhere down the line.  I 
guess I need to start going back through backups until I find the 
newest one that doesn't have a problem, then try to "patch" it to match 
the current version.

Well, at least it seems solvable now...

On May 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

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> I never use the single-byte <>, <= or >= versions in any of my 
> scripts.  I just checked the only other script I may have added from 
> an outside source since this last worked, and they are clean.
>
> I tried suppress messages and save standalone, no good.
>
> I then made an exact copy of the stack (using the Finder), opened that 
> copy in Rev, tried saving that as a standalone.  Still not working.
>
> Next, I tried commenting out the savingStandalone, preOpenStack, 
> openStack, closeStackRequest, shutdownRequest, and closeStack handlers 
> in my mainstack, along with the preOpenCard and openCard handlers in 
> the first card of that stack (I'm working with the copy).
>
> I then saved the stack, quit Rev, reopened the stack, turned on 
> Supress Messages, and tried saving the standalone.
>
> Same unhelpful error.  Needless to say, this is getting rather 
> frustrating.  The stack represents several months worth of work.  
> There are 40 substacks, one of which has 42 cards (the mainstack has 8 
> cards).
>
> The mainstack's script got to be so long I broke it down by adding a 
> backscript via a field on the first card (it is added by the 
> preOpenStack script which I commeted out -- that's why I quit Rev 
> before trying to build again).
>
> That backscript got to be so long I forked off a *second* backscript, 
> so that there are now two backscripts: one with 838 lines, and one 
> with 803 lines.  The mainstack script still has 473 lines , and some 
> of the cards on my mainstack have scripts with line counts like 889 
> and 807... some of the substacks have scripts of over 200 lines, and a 
> few of their cards have scripts on the order of 100+ lines.  And these 
> are just the stacks and cards!  Some of the controls also have scripts 
> of several hundred lines each.
>
> Needless to say, I can't really afford to lose this stack.  I have 
> backup copies, but with this level of complexity, backing up even a 
> step or two could be rather costly, and if the same problems occur...
>
>
> Okay, one more thing I thought to try: I have a number of externals 
> I'm using, some of them are custom ones (that I built).  Rev crashes 
> every time I build a standalone from a stack using certain externals 
> (after displaying the message that the standalone was successfully 
> saved, or now this error), and this is one of those stacks.
>
> I tried setting the externals of the copy (the one with all of the 
> handlers commented out) to empty, quitting Rev, and repeating the 
> process.  Rev thinks about it a little longer now, but still comes 
> back to the same error message. At least this time it didn't crash 
> afterwords ;-)
>
> The destination folder (the folder created during the save process) is 
> still not created.
>
>
>
>
> On May 3, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> Here are a couple of other suggestions.
>> 1) If you're using a Mac, make sure >= is two characters not one.
>> 2) Try commenting out all preOpenStack/preOpenCard openStack/openCard 
>> handlers and then build the standalone. If it works, then you can 
>> assume you're doing something in the handlers which is creating 
>> problems. Enable one at a time and locate the problem handler, then 
>> debug from there.
>>
>> Let us know what you find.
>>
>> best,
>> Chipp
>>
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>>
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> Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
>
> $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
> $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
> John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
> Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
> everlasting life.
> $
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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