Getting a list of non-Rev main stacks

[Pete Haworth]

Oops, spoke too soon.  That gets all stacks, not just main stacks, but from
there I can go through and weed out the substacks so still OK.

Pete



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> if you want to get stacks that are not ide, you can use
> revloadedstacks(application)
>
> put revloadedstacks(application) into tStackList
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Pete Haworth <lists.pete at haworths.org
> >wrote:
>
> > I have a need to get a list of all open application stacks.  The
> mainstacks
> > property includes all the IDE stacks so I filter them out by looking for
> > the
> > ones that begin with "rev".  That gets most of them but still leaves a
> few
> > that don't start with "rev", e.g "Home", "Answer Dialog", "AskDialog",
> > "Message Box".  I keep adding to the list of specific names to exclude,
> but
> > new ones crop up every now and again.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a fail safe method of detecting that a stack belongs
> to
> > the IDE?  Maybe some custom property or other?
> >
> >
> > Pete
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