Cloning a stack

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Fri Nov 7 12:10:33 EST 2008


Ken, you're remarkable. Thanks. I'll take a look at the documentation.  
I'm sure it doesn't state things as clearly as you just did.

Now, does anyone know what my Classic error 199 problem is?

TIA,

Joe Wilkins

On Nov 7, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> Thanks Jan. I'm sure I tried that, but I'll try it again. Maybe I
>> didn't properly identify the clone when I tried saving it.
>
> Actually, to be more clear, cloning the stack puts it in memory, but  
> there's
> no attached file path, so trying to just "save" it after the clone has
> happened won't do anything. You need to set "the filename" of the  
> cloned
> stack to a path on disk, and THEN save it. As in:
>
> clone stack "ABC"
> -- "it" now contains a reference to the new stack
> -- it just made that's in memory
> set the filename of it to "/Users/yourUserName/Desktop/ABC.rev"
> save it
>
> HTH,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/







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