Identifying IDE stacks

[J. Landman Gay]

Interesting...so there are two ways. It looks like revIDEStackIsIDEStack 
needs a long id, and revStackNameIsIDEStack needs only the short name 
but will also accept a long ID.

Thanks for finding the list of qualifications.

On 4/27/18 5:09 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 04/27/2018 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> It used to be we could identify IDE stacks because their names started 
>> with "rev" but that's not true anymore. I want to scan for and list 
>> any open non-IDE stacks. Does anyone know offhand if there's an 
>> existing function in the IDE that identifies IDE stacks? Or maybe 
>> there's a property to check for?
>>
> 
> If you're just looking at the open stacks, you can iterate through them 
> using
> 
> revStackNameIsIDEStack(tStackName)
> 
> which will return true if it's a system stack.
> 
> According to the comments for revIDEStackNameIsIDEStack which call it,
> 
> A stack is considered part of the IDE if any of the following are 
> satisfied:
> * Its name begins with "rev"
> * It was loaded by the initialisation library
> * Its name begins with "com.livecode."
> * Its name is "message box, answer dialog, ask dialog, or home"
> * Its _ideoverride property is true
> 


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