use-livecode Digest, Vol 124, Issue 44

[Alan Stenhouse]

Hi Ender

I can't imagine that once you build your standalone that there will be any change at all to the IDs inside it - that shouldn't be possible - unless you're opening a separate stack/data file and modifying that?

If it is a "datafile" that you're including/modifying and you're creating so much from scratch each time, is it really necessary that it's a separate stack file? Can you somehow just save the last status in a text/data file and rebuild on startup?

What is your actual setup for this app?

cheers

Alan

On 27/01/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:21:39 +0200
> From: Ender Nafi Elekcioglu <endernafi at keehuna.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: How to Reset ID's of Controls
> Message-ID: <etPan.52e63333.6b8b4567.1b9 at fdbqMacBookPro.local>
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> Since, there isn?t any native command to do this;
> I created a new stack and copied my cards to it.
> 
> It resulted two things:
> 1. My background group has completely gone crazy.
> Now the group itself is *shared* and *background*, but its controls are not.
> Interesting, isn?t it?
> I have a field ?instructions? for example.
> Its content is different on each card.
> It has a couple of nested groups whose rects are different on each card.
> 
> 2. After all, my struggle of hours was pointless.
> Because the ids could reach to 5 figures {34657} in no time.
> I was creating some controls on the fly and delete them on closeCard or closeStack;
> and apparently Livecode doesn?t reset the ids at all.
> 
> It just adds up to the recent id regardless of that control deleted or not.
> 
> So, does that mean if the user runs the app, say 1000 times, the ids will reach zillion figures?
> I have tens of cards, each one has hundreds of controls?
> and I create those controls on each time the user navigates to those cards.
> 
> 
> I?m confused, this is a crucial project, my client is a governmental institution
> and I can?t afford if all users start to report crashes a couple of months later.
> 
> 
> Or am I being paranoid here?
> 
> It?s an iOS project, btw.
> 
> 
> Appreciate every insight,
> 
> Thanks?
> 
> ~ Ender