Stack file opened message?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Jul 18 18:11:36 EDT 2012


No the target returns the first card of the stack, or else the card you went to if you went to a specific card of the stack. But I give you this:

ON openStack
    put the name of this stack & cr & word 6 to -1 of the long name of the target
    pass openStack
END openStack

Bob


On Jul 18, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I haven't tried this but I suspect the target contains the stack name and
> having got that, you can get it's effective filename to get the stack file
> name.
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't think there is one. This underscores the need for messages like
>> openStack to return the stack name as a parameter as in:
>> 
>> on openStack pStackName, pFileName
>> 
>> If anyone thinks this is useful, I will post an enhancement request. It
>> cannot break anything in the past, and would be really useful in some
>> circumstances.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> Checked the dictionary but couldn't spot a message that's generated when
>> a
>>> stack file is opened?  I know of preOpenStack and openStack but I'm
>> looking
>>> for something when a stack file is opened, not a stack.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pete
>>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>





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