Manipulate Stacks with Duplicate Names?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri Oct 14 00:18:07 EDT 2005


On 10/13/05 1:23 AM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

>>> Is there any way to distinguish between newly created
>>> (unsaved) stacks that have the same name?
> 
>> How about using the stack's ID?
> 
> I seem to recall reading on the list long ago that it was somehow possible
> for multiple opened stacks to have duplicate IDs, and (because of this)
> referencing stacks by ID wasn't reliable.  Is this actually the case or have
> I spent years mistakenly avoiding referencing stacks by ID?

Coul you use the windowID? Theoretically they'd have to be in separate
windows and that would require them to have unique windowIDs...


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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