When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

[Mark Smith]

The best I could do was:

function stackIsOpen pLongID
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   return (char 1 to -6 of item -1 of pLongID) is among the lines of  
the openStacks
end stackIsOpen

which on a 1.5mhz G4 powerbook took 150 ms for 1000 iterations.  
(checking the windowID took 500 ms).

The trouble with 'value(word wordoffset("stack",pLongID)+1 of  
pLongID)' is that given the long id of a stack, it returns the full  
path of the stack, so is never in the openStacks.

Best,

Mark

On 14 Apr 2006, at 18:08, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> Sounds like an opportunity for the gang here to come up with a  
>>> fast way to parse the stack name.
>> function objStack pLongID
>>    return value(word wordoffset("stack",pLongID)+1 of pLongID)
>> end objStack
>> Didn't time it. One-liner though. :)
>
> Well done:  0.027ms (1GHz G4)
>
> I'd considered the value function, but sometimes I get skittish  
> about it for fear of object names that may evaluate to valid  
> expressions.
>
> But apparently since the name is in quotes it doesn't matter -- I  
> even named my stack "time()" and it still only returned the first- 
> level evaluation (removing the quotes to obtain the string "time()").
>
> Good job, Jacque.
>
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