7.0 corrupted two stacks!

[Jimmieson, Phil]

On 25 Oct 2014, at 03:29, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Timothy Miller wrote:
> 
> > I just downloaded and installed the "stable" version of 7.0,
> > didn't give it much thought. I only opened two stacks...
> ...
> > The two stacks I opened come up corrupted in LiveCode Community
> > 6.6.5.
> 
> Any newer format opened in any older version of LiveCode will do that.

That’s why I made an enhancement request in the Quality Centre:

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12558

Even those of us who know this happens with earlier versions can get confused by the corrupt stack message, or momentarily forget and it’s a horrible feeling when you think you may have lost hours of work.

> 
> While LiveCode's file format doesn't change often, each time it does the IDE provides a File-Save As option for saving in earlier formats. In 7.0 it includes support for the last three file formats, providing compatibility with all versions of LiveCode spanning more than a decade.
> 
> It would be good to know if you can open those files in v7 again, so we explore why you encountered a script error you'd never seen in any earlier version.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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