Can a script preempt substack name conflicts?

[Mike Bonner]

You can check the substack names without first loading the stack into
memory.

get the substacks of stack "/path/to/stackfile.livecode"

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:37 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 5/14/2015 8:16 PM, David Epstein wrote:
>
>> With stack A already open, I open stack B and get a alert like this:
>>
>> "A stack "<substackName>" in file <fileName of stack A> is already in
>> memory.  The Revolution UI does not distinguish stacks which have
>> identical names, so editing these stack files while both are in
>> memory could result in data loss.”
>>
>> Is it possible by script to intercept the message that generates this
>> alert, and rename either the substack that is already in memory or
>> the substack of the stack I am trying to open, so as to avoid both
>> the alert and the risk of data loss?  My impression is that if I try
>> to learn the substack names of a file I will already be loading that
>> file into memory, and it will be too late to head off the alert.
>>
>
> I don't think it's worth it to try and hack the IDE to get around the
> warning. You won't lose any data unless you make changes to one of the
> duplicate stacks and then try to save it. So what I usually do is note the
> name of the problem stack and quit LC. Then I restart, open the stack I
> want to change, and temporarily alter its name in the property inspector. I
> don't save it.
>
> Then open the second stack, do whatever work is necessary, and then close
> and remove it from memory. After that you can change the name of the
> original stack back to what it was again.
>
> When I know in advance I'm going to open duplicate-named stacks, I just
> change the first stack temporarily before opening the second one. It saves
> time.
>
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>
>
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