Close and Delete a stack

[Phil Davis]

Hi Graham,

What happens if you do only this?

    lock messages -- assuming you don't want any handlers to be
    triggered by the stack's closing
    delete stack "myDataStack"

I'm also assuming "myDataStack" is a mainStack and not a substack. (As 
you know, you can't remove a substack from memory independent of its 
mainStack unless you end its existence with "delete stack".)

Food for thought...

Phil Davis



On 10/13/16 10:10 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> I have a situation where I want to close a stack and then delete it, so that it no  longer exists in memory and so that no naming conflicts occur when I load a fresh stack with the same name. This used to work - part of a script running in a different stack to the one being deleted:
>
>    set the cantDelete of stack "myDataStack" to false
>
>    set the destroyStack of stack "myDataStack" to true
>
>    set the destroyWindow of stack "myDataStack" to true
>
>    close stack "myDataStack" -- this should ensure that there are no messages operating in that stack
>
>    delete stack "myDataStack" -- this should remove it from memory
>    
> What happens in 8.1.1 rc2 (on a Mac with El Capitan, if that’s relevant) is that all goes well until the ‘delete’ command, when I get error 347, which is “stack locked, or object’s script executing”. Well, since the stack is closed (this is apparent on the screen), its scripts can’t be running, and it’s not locked (whatever that means - the dictionary is not helpful), I don’t think the error is the correct one.
>
> The problem exists both in the IDE and in the standalone version of the program.
>
> I have two problems tracking this down:
>
> (a) it used to work up to LC7.x; and
>
> (b) an attempt to abstract the issue by repeating it with some very simple stacks doesn’t demonstrate the error.
>
> Can anyone suggest an approach to debugging this?  I am totally foxed.
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
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Phil Davis