Stack open?
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Feb 16 12:56:45 EST 2010
Klaus on-rev wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> Andrew Kluthe wrote:
>>
>>> I need to check to see if a stack is open. Not sure of the syntax or
>>> even if
>>> that can be done.
>> Besides other suggestions given, you can also use:
>>
>> If there is a stack "stackName" then...
>
> sorry, but this does not work as one might exspect! :-)
>
> If there is a stackfile "stackname.rev" in the defaultfolder then this will also resolve to true
> even if this stack is NOT open.
It will also return true if there is a substack with that name, whether
it is open or not. Also it returns true if a stack has been closed but
has its destroystack property set to false, in which case it is still in
RAM though not open.
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