When closed, does a substack whose destroyStack is true remains in memory ?

André.Bisseret Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr
Thu Mar 23 03:47:50 EST 2006


Thank you very much Ken for your answers ; I am taking them into 
account immediately :-)

André

Le Wednesday, 22 Mar 2006, à 23:42 Europe/Paris, Ken Ray a écrit :

> On 3/22/06 6:32 AM, "André.Bisseret" <Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi !
>>
>> As far as a substack is concerned,
>> from the Doc (on save, close, destroyStack…)
>> I understand that :
>> even if its destroyStack property is set to true,
>> If I save and close this substack while the main stack remains opened,
>> then this substack remains in memory.
>
> Yes, this is true - actually when you loaded the mainstack, all of its
> substacks get loaded into memory automatically and can't be purged 
> until the
> mainstack itself is closed.
>
>> P.S. : by the way, is it a means to check if a closed stack (or
>> substack) is still in memory ?
>
> Well, as I mentioned above, closed substacks are still in memory if the
> mainstack is, so you could check for the mainstack in "the windows" or 
> in
> "the stacks" to see if it is in memory.
>
> You can also use "the mainstacks" to get a list of stacks that are in
> memory.
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>





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