Accessing stacks without opening

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Apr 26 22:58:53 EDT 2010


Marty Knapp wrote:
> So it appears that you can set custom properties of a stack and "put" 
> information into fields of stacks that are not open, from a stack that 
> is open. I just did it by accident! That being the case, is there 
> anything that I should be aware of when doing this? Is the referenced 
> stack loaded into memory? Is this considered bad form?

As Phil said, it can be handy. I use prefs stacks this way sometimes 
because they're available but out of the message path. I make sure to 
close the prefs stack when the main stack quits.

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