[ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

[Mark Wieder]

Jacque-

Saturday, July 23, 2011, 11:46:53 AM, you wrote:

> On 7/22/11 10:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Jacque-
>>
>> Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:49:28 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>>> Jacque-
>>>>
>>>> Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the
>>>>> Files and Memory section of prefs.
>>>>
>>>> Unless you create stacks by script, in which case the destroyStack
>>>> preference is ignored... sad but true...
>>>>
>>
>>> For real? But...I do that all the time. I guess I never actually checked
>>> on it, but I don't remember the files hanging around in memory either.
>>> Is that some new glitch? Does it also happen in standalones? (I wonder
>>> how you'd check that in a standalone.)
>>
>> BZ #3190 (17 October 2005), but as Mark Waddingham attempts to explain
>> "This isn't actually a bug."
>>

> I see. I think I agree with Mark, but in any case it doesn't affect my
> code. I always script the destroystack property specifically after 
> creating a new stack in code, and I almost always do it in a standalone
> (to make a user prefs stack usually.) It's good to know about it though.

You can also set the destroyStack of the templateStack before creating
a script and get the same result. Still, I do wish stack creation
would respect the IDE preferences setting so that we wouldn't end up
with little surprises like this.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net