problem deleting cards in v2.8.1?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Once again, out of curiosity, when an HC stack is converted, do the  
backgrounds get converted to groups? So far, I have only thought in   
terms of using groups to emulate backgrounds in new Rev stacks. TIA  
for the info.

Joe Wilkins

On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> I haven't yet pinned down a recipe, but here's the issue:
>> I have a stack with about two dozen cards, most of which share  
>> about 8 groups.
>> When I use "delete card <cardName>" to delete a card, I get a hard  
>> crash if I'm on that card.
>> If I go to another card and delete the one I'd tried earlier, it  
>> works but I also lose one (and only one) of my shared groups from  
>> all cards which had them.
>> But I found that if I first manually remove all shared groups,  
>> deleting the card works like a champ.
>> FWIW this stack was originally (years ago) a port from HC, so the  
>> hcAddressing is true.
>> Also, it's worth noting that I tried the delete with the  
>> lockMessages set to true to rule out any interference with my  
>> scripts; still a crash.
>> I can work on pinning down a recipe later, but right now I just  
>> need to stay focused on getting this out the door now that I have  
>> a workaround.
>> If any others here have had problems delete cards in v2.8.1 please  
>> let me know so we can compare notes and post the recipe to BZ.
>
> I haven't seen this particular problem, but almost every crash I've  
> ever had with an imported HC stack has happened because the  
> original was not thoroughly compacted in HC first before being  
> imported into Rev. I don't suppose that helps you much, since it's  
> a little late to do that in this case. HC wrote a lot of junk to  
> stacks that needs to be removed before an import can be  
> successfully accomplished, and sometimes the problem doesn't show  
> up until later when you try to do something that needs to read that  
> particular portion of the binary.
>
> Not much help, I know.
>
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