Idle handlers and Text files

[Len Morgan]

Hello Mark!

If my first wife had not asked me to get the "big snip" as an 
anniversary present many years ago, I'd name my next male child after 
you for that little tidbit.  I may still consider re-naming my first 
born male child after you, although at 22, he may have some thoughts on 
the matter.

You have saved me DAYS of frustration in tracking down why my 
preOpenStack is getting executed AGAIN when I quit the app!  Is that 
little item documented anywhere?  Now that I see it in writing and 
knowing (a little) about how the message path works, it makes perfect 
sense.  I guess I always figured that when I opened another stack, the 
message was sent to it.  It never occurred that if there was no 
preOpenStack message, that it would get passed back to the caller!  
Perhaps that is obvious to everyone but me.

Thanks again!!!

len morgan


Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Len,
>
> You'd put a preOpenStack handler into the card script of the mainstack 
> if you want that script to run only when the mainstack opens and not 
> when substacks open. Otherwise, the preOpenStack handler would be send 
> up the message hierarchy each time a substack is opened.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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