LC7 stackfileversion

[Scott Rossi]

Just save the stack.  You don't need to use Save as or set stackFileVersion -- when the stack is saved in v7 it can use the features of that version.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On May 2, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a stack that I am about to work on in 7.0.4 so it can handle
> Unicode.
> 
> I'm under the impression that to do that, I need to save the stack in 7.0
> format since I will be using the textEncode/Decode handlers so I open the
> stack and use the "Save As" option selecting the Format as "Livecode stack"
> to save it to a different file.  As a side note, why isn't this option
> clearly labelled as meaning 7.0 format?  I assume it does because it's the
> only one that doesn't specifically refer to another format but maybe it
> doesn't mean that at all.
> 
> Next, I'm subjected to the problem that LC wants to open the "saved as"
> stack and has a problem because there's already a stack in memory with the
> same name.  Finally clicked enough buttons to get out of that, closed LC,
> reran it, opened the "saved as" version of the stackfile, and the
> stackfileversion is still set to 2.7
> 
> OK, maybe the confusion over the duplicate stack name problem messed things
> up.  So I set the stackFileVersion to 7.0 in the message box, saved the
> stack file, quit and reran LC, open the stack file and it's still set to
> 2.7.
> 
> What am I missing?  IS there some other property of the stackfile I should
> be checking to see if it really is in 7.0 format?
> 
> Pete
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