Reminder: objects cannot be copied when stack is password-protected!!! Even in a standalone. Grrrrrr....
Eric Chatonet
eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Wed Feb 27 05:53:06 EST 2008
Hi Josh,
In a protected stack, you can't copy of course but you may clone :-)
Le 27 févr. 08 à 00:32, Josh Mellicker a écrit :
> Once upon a time, a programmer was working on a project, with many
> handlers that copy objects, for example, copy groups into groups to
> form scrolling groups, and everything was working great, and the
> programmer was very happy, and then, as a last step, he password
> protected the stack, then, the next day...
>
> BLAMO!!!! Strange, bizarre things happened. Groups would not copy.
> Death and destruction reigned. Monitors came crashing out windows.
> Expletives burned the ears of innocent bystanders.
>
> This programmer then leapt off a cliff, ending it all.
>
>
> MORAL: If he had only put a single line of code:
>
> set the passkey of this stack to "swordfish"
>
> in the preOpenStack script, all would be fine.
>
>
> Please, tell your kids about "passkey", don't let them suffer a
> similar fate!
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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