Stack name of a standaone

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I am sure there is a better way, but one way would be to get the  
openStacks() before, then open the new stack, then get the  
openStacks() after, and do a quick compare. The new one is the just  
loaded stack.


On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> I need to read a property of a standalone stack from another main  
> stack that has been called by the standalone.
>
> Anybody know a reliable way to get the stack name of a stack that  
> has been turned into a standalone, from within another stack that  
> the standalone has launched? It's easy to get the name of the  
> standalone stack when that's the active stack, just by getting 'the  
> short name of this stack'. But once that stack launches another  
> stack, how do you do it reliably? Here are the tools I know about:
>
> the address - the name of the system the app is running on followed  
> by the path to the app. But the app name isn't necessarily the same  
> as the short name.
>
> the stacks - returns a list of the filenames of stack files with  
> currently open stacks
>
> the openStacks - returns a list of the short names of all open  
> stacks (The name I want is in there, but where? Would it always be  
> the first in the list? Last in the list?)
>
> revLoadedStacks(application) - returns a list of the short names of  
> all non-rev stacks loaded into memory (But ditto the above. Where is  
> the name of the standalone stack?)
>
> the mainstacks - a list of main stacks loaded into memory. (Same  
> problem.)
>
> If I knew for sure that the name of the standalone stack ALWAYS came  
> first in these lists, I could get what I need.
>
> What I really need is 'the short name of the standaloneStack'.
>
> Anybody know?
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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