Weird crash when stack is in use

[William Prothero]

FYI, I made a test stack where the destination stack’s only script was the “start using” script referred to below. Livecode did not crash. I don’t know why it crashes my app, but I will investigate further to try and pin down the source, over the next day or so.
Bill

> On Jan 1, 2016, at 9:50 AM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> First, Happy New Year. I’ve gotten obsessed with a very odd crash that’s stopping my progress, so here it is.
> 
> I am on Mac El-Capitan 10.11.2 and Livecode 7.1. I have a splash stack that launches my main stack, which has several substacks. When I load my main stack, I “start using “ all of the library stacks that I need. There is a handler in one of the library stacks that calls a script in the main stack’s stack script. This script (in the library stack) can’t find the handler in the stack that calls it. So, I tried to “start using “ the main stack. This crashes livecode. 
> 
> Is it bad practice to “start using “ the main application stack? When I look at “the target”, I get the reference to the button where the action was initiated, but the IDE says that it can’t find the handler.
> 
> Here’s the sequence:
> 
> --Launch splash app
> 
> —button click on splash app opens the main app
> 
> —script in cd 1 initializes the main app and “starts using” the library apps and substacks
> 
> Resut: If, in the initialization routine (in the card script of card 1 of the main app), I do:
> 
> put the name of this stack into sName
> if not (the stacksinuse contains sName) then
>    start using sName
> end if
> 
> —result: livecode crashes. No error messages, just disappears.
> 
> If I don’t put the above statements in the initialization routine, LC does not crash, but then
> handlers in one of the library stacks can’t find the function handler in the main app stack script.
> 
> ?? This is quite frustrating and caps of a day of tedious coding that I thought was finished, until this problem surfaced. Livecode crashes without any dialog, error report. It just disappears.
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> Best,
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero, Ph.D.
> University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
> prothero at earthednet.org
> 
> 
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