Remote stack thinks it is corrupt

[Andre Garzia]

Swami,

Are they saved in legacy format?

What is the version of the engine that is trying to open them?

Om
andre

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:

>  In house I serve a lot of stacks from our big XServer on the LAN.
>
> I issue small players to desktops and then call the actual apps for
> production with
>
> I recently updated a stack with  Livecode 4.6 dp7; put it back on the
> server and then call it as usual:
>
> on mouseUp
>   go stack url "http://varuna.hindu.org/rev_stacks/KA Media
> Player/KA-Media-Player.livecode"
>   put the result
> end mouseUp
>
> I'm getting:  stack is corrupted, check for ~ backup file
>
>
> OK so I wondered if it was 4.6 dp7 and so I made back ups of some other
> stacks, very old (circa 2005-6)
>
> opened them in 4.6 dp7 and "messed around" with a lot of new features,
> graphic effects, added a few behaviors etc.
>
> saved and put one of these back on the server.
>
> stack is corrupted, check for ~ backup file
>
>
> on mouseUp
>   go stack url "http://varuna.hindu.org/rev_stacks/KA-Stack-Index.livecode
> "
>   put the result
> end mouseUp
>
> well, result is empty, stack opens up just fine.
>
> So this means that this one stack:
>
> KA-Media-Player.livecode
>
> is registering as corrupt if I try to load it with
> go stack url "http://varuna.hindu.org/rev_stacks/KA Media
> Player/KA-Media-Player.livecode"
>
>
> but I have for years opened and worked on stacks across the network and in
> this case if asking go to the server in the finder and double click on the
> copy on the server:
>
> KA-Media-Player.livecode
>
> it opens in 4.6 dp7 just fine.  There is no indication at all that it is
> corrupt.
>
> So, I'm stuck.. I can't deploy this stack with standalone player.  Since
> the stack seems fine, I don't know what to fix.
>
> The only clue could be possibly that there are a lot of open card and open
> stack handlers in KA-Media-Player.livecode stack and a standalone made with
> 4.6 dp7  (i updated the player)  may not like these for some reason, where
> as simple stacks that do not have a lot of initial activity on open
> stack/card, open just fine when called by the same player.
>
> Any insights on how to de-bug this?
>
> Otherwise I don't know what to do other than send the stack to Mark and ask
> him why 4.6 dp7 thinks it is corrupt if called remotely.
>
> Sivakatirswami
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