Bug: in 8.18 Stable and 9 Dp11 legacy stack import

[Brian Milby]

Are you talking about the binary format of a stack file?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:35 AM Lagi Pittas via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just spent a good few hours "playing" - I wished - with the Text
> formatting of field.
>
> Specifically It was on LC9 but I then installed 8.1.8 and the problem is on
> there as well.
> The problem was that all new fields (and old fields) a card had the "BOLD"
> textstyle try as I might I couldn't switch off the bold unless I ticked
> underline or italic or any other textstyle - There isnt a Plain button as
> in version 6 anymore - or I cant find it.
> If I press fixedline height and click on italic i can then switch off bold
> and italic but it comes back on when i switch fixedline height off.
>
> Anyway I did some more testing and it seems it was because this stack was
> originally created in v6.11 - and I moved onto 9 when I got a corruption
> that kept coming back - yes I know backups - I had MAXVs backup plugin
> running and dropbox version history but they were saving the corrupted
> stack although it was all fine and dandy in the IDE.
>
> So the upshot is (I think) one of loading a legacy stack.
>
> On a related note the corrupted stack was "losing" a substack used for
> reporting  and a library stack but not alwayat the same time when I was
> rebuilding from a working backup. - Lost days.
>
> I wrote a little binary loader and managed to get the code for both stacks
> back - so they were both still in the stack but were not showing in the
> projectbrowser.
>
> Can someone point me to the file where this loading of stacks is done and
> the structure because I think we need some sort of stack loader for some
> such instances in the future
>
> Regards Lagi
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