Standalone builder tells me that there is a stack ... already open and so on

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Fri Feb 15 10:55:18 EST 2019


I just had an, "AHA!" moment. 

Bob S


> On Feb 14, 2019, at 10:15 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> The example there is uses two paths that differ based on the Unix shortcut of "~" for the user's home folder, e.g.:
> 
>   /home/matthias/workfolder/somestack.livecode
> 
> ...vs:
> 
>  ~/workfolder/somestack.livecode
> 
> Both paths refer to the same file system object, but apparently the engine maintains its handle to the file based on the given path rather than the fully resolved path, so it believes those are two different files in which the stack objects happen to have the same name.





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