is there a way to trap the "start using" command before it happens.

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Nov 1 20:46:15 EDT 2008


Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hello Chipp,
> 
> thanks for replying. I can't use startup. Let me explain the
> situation. RevHTTP server is now able to run revolution cgis as if it
> was apache. The problem is that there's no sandbox, so if a stack is
> put into use, it stays into use after the cgi ends because most cgis
> don't issue a stop using command. I keep track of what is put into use
> so I can do library caching and stuff and thus speed things up. The
> problem is, if something is already into use and a cgi tries to use it
> again, the IDE pops up that silly annoying dialog box "purge, save,
> cancel" and locks up the whole thing!!! There's no preference settings
> for that dialog, nothing, I need to prevent it from happening, this
> means prevent the opening a stack without touching the cgi source
> code... tricky...

Lock messages before using a library?

Rev checks for stack collisions in its frontscript. But it compares the 
filenames of the stacks and should not trigger a collision if the file 
paths are the same.

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