Stacks Losing their Size and Location

[Ray]

Paul this is working out very well.  Actually, both of these ideas work 
equally well.  Thanks!

On 12/17/2015 9:00 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 8:05 PM, Ray wrote:
>> Paul - excellent idea and thanks for this suggestion.  There's just
>> one pitfall in my situation.  I'm doing this:
>>
>>     put url serverStackPath into stackData
>>     open file localStackPath for binary write
>>     write stackData to file localStackPath
>>     close file localStackPath
>>
>> I've now created the 'virgin' stack but the rect it should be is
>> stored as a property in it.  So the problem is the next line:
>>
>>     put the LastRect of stack localStackPath into stacksLastRect
>>
>> will effectively open the stack, thus assigning the templateStack's
>> rectangle to it before I get a chance to change the rect of the
>> templateStack.
>>
>> What do you think?
> As an aside, you could probably shorten the above to:
>
>   put url serverStackPath into url ("binfile:"&localStackPath) -- copy
> stack from server to local storage
>
> then I would do a variant of what Phil suggested, namely open the local
> stack invisible, fetch the custom property "LastRect", set the stack's
> rect to be what you want it to be, then save the stack. Or follow Phil's
> suggested and open from the server invisibly, set the size, and save.
>
>
>
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