When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

[Mark Smith]

I see what you mean. Maybe what's needed is a library of functions to  
deal with this sort of thing.

Mark

On 18 Apr 2006, at 10:34, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem with that is if you have groups or nested groups, you  
> then have to loop thru until you find the card or stack.
>
> All the Best
> Dave
>
> On 15 Apr 2006, at 13:07, Mark Smith wrote:
>
>> Well, you could try using 'the owner of'. I haven't experimented  
>> with it much, so I don't know how flexible it is.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mark
>> On 15 Apr 2006, at 12:54, David Burgun wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for this. One thing that has puzzled me is why you  
>>> can't access things like the stack or card of an object. For  
>>> instance why can't I just do this:
>>>
>>> put the short name of the  stack of the long id of me  into  
>>> myStackName
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> put the short name of the  card of the long id of me  myCardName
>>>
>>> Which would return the name of the stack/card that the object  
>>> resides in.
>>>
>>> It just seems like this ought to work, in fact when I found out  
>>> that RunRev didn't support this I was surprised!
>>>
>>> Any ideas why this isn't supported?
>>>
>>> All the Best
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 15 Apr 2006, at 02:33, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mark Smith wrote:
>>>> > I just had a doh! moment  in response to your <the short name of
>>>> > pStackLongID>, but then in order to see how much faster the  
>>>> engine  does
>>>> > this, I tested it the same way I tested my first tries (which   
>>>> was
>>>> > actually with 10000 iterations, not 1000), and
>>>> >
>>>> > function stackIsOpen pLongID
>>>> >   return (the short name of pLongID is among the lines of the  
>>>> openstacks)
>>>> > end stackIsOpen
>>>> >
>>>> > takes nearly 600 ms!
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. I never time these things enough. It looks like if  
>>>> a script needs to make repeated calls to the function, then your  
>>>> way would be preferable because of the speed increase.
>>>>
>>>> It's been an interesting experiment, I like when the list does  
>>>> these things.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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