needs saving

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Peter,

As soon as a field gets focused, revolution puts "edited" into gRevStackStatus[short name of this stack]. That's a very bad trick and means that your stack is almost always "edited".

A much better way is to calculate the hash of relevant data and compare this with a new hash value. If the two hash values are different, then you need to set the dirty flag.

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On 4 nov 2011, at 15:04, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:

> Anyone know what the IDE uses to decide whether to ask about saving a stack when it closes? I'm trying to implement a "markDirty" routine for the Mac. I have a frontscript that catches (then passes) closefield and sets the modifiedMark of the stack, but that won't catch field contents modified by script, or changed customprops, etc, unless I comb through over 30,000 lines of code to find all the places where I change the contents of the stack, and insert a "markDirty" command. If I could intercept whatever message the IDE uses for this it would simplify things immensely.
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