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

[Mark Smith]

Well, you could try using 'the owner of'. I haven't experimented with  
it much, so I don't know how flexible it is.

Best,

Mark
On 15 Apr 2006, at 12:54, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for this. One thing that has puzzled me is why you  
> can't access things like the stack or card of an object. For  
> instance why can't I just do this:
>
> put the short name of the  stack of the long id of me  into  
> myStackName
>
> or
>
> put the short name of the  card of the long id of me  myCardName
>
> Which would return the name of the stack/card that the object  
> resides in.
>
> It just seems like this ought to work, in fact when I found out  
> that RunRev didn't support this I was surprised!
>
> Any ideas why this isn't supported?
>
> All the Best
> Dave
>
> On 15 Apr 2006, at 02:33, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Mark Smith wrote:
>> > I just had a doh! moment  in response to your <the short name of
>> > pStackLongID>, but then in order to see how much faster the  
>> engine  does
>> > this, I tested it the same way I tested my first tries (which  was
>> > actually with 10000 iterations, not 1000), and
>> >
>> > function stackIsOpen pLongID
>> >   return (the short name of pLongID is among the lines of the  
>> openstacks)
>> > end stackIsOpen
>> >
>> > takes nearly 600 ms!
>>
>> Interesting. I never time these things enough. It looks like if a  
>> script needs to make repeated calls to the function, then your way  
>> would be preferable because of the speed increase.
>>
>> It's been an interesting experiment, I like when the list does  
>> these things.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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