Can't delete a stack

[Graham Samuel]

Sadly, exactly the same thing. If the IDE can purge a stack, why can't I? Maybe the delete command fires some other handler I don't know about. I will try to reduce the thing to a very simple test. I'm using LC 5.5.4 on a Mac, by the way.

Graham

On 23 Mar 2013, at 18:54, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:

> Graham.
> 
> 
> Without digging into this at all, what happens if you delete the file last?
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 1:28 pm
> Subject: Can't delete a stack
> 
> 
> I've got a stack that I want to purge in the way the IDE does. At the time of 
> execution of the script below, the stack is in memory with a copy of it in a 
> file (the path is in a global 'gDataStackPath'. I want to destroy both. Part of 
> my script looks like this:
> 
> try
>      if there is a file gDataStackPath then
>         delete file gDataStackPath
>         set the cantDelete of stack "myData" to false
>         set the destroyStack of stack "myData" to true
>         set the destroyWindow of stack "myData" to true
>         delete stack "myData" -- this should remove it from memory
> 
> This deletes the file as expected, and the IDE shows that the stack is still in 
> memory, but the script crashes on the 'delete stack..' line. The error is 361 
> "can't set this property".
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham
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