How to force a reload of a datastack.

[Ian McKnight]

Hi

I had forgotten about revert - I just thought it was an entry on the File
menu! As my program/app loads a separate data stack which is the one I want
to revert then  would need to do this?

put the defaultstack into myOldStack
set the defaultstack to myDataStack
revert
set the defaultstack to myOldStack


Thanks

On 2 January 2011 19:02, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 1/2/11 12:38 PM, Ian McKnight wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Could someone confirm (or otherwise) that what I hope to happen with this
>> script will indeed happen?
>>
>> I have a stack loaded into memory at start up. I have exclusive use of it
>> for a period of time. When the time runs out someone else can use and
>> change
>> the stack. But I want to use the data stack again - after it has been
>> changed by someone else but as I haven't quit my program I still have the
>> 'old' version in memory. Will this script force the file to be re-read
>> from
>> disc?
>>
>> command openDataFile pName
>>    --------------------------------------------
>>
>>    if gWaitingToGoAgainAfterTimeOut = false
>>    then
>>
>> -- load the file first time of asking
>>
>>       put "data/"&pName into tName
>>       open invisible stack tName
>>
>>    else
>>
>> -- stack could have changed
>> -- clear my old version out of memory
>> -- and load stack again
>>
>>       set the destroyStack of stack pName to true
>>       close stack pName
>>       open invisible stack tName
>>
>>    end if
>> end openDataFile
>>
>
> It should. But I usually just use the "revert" command, which forces a
> reload without closing the stack.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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Ian McKnight

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