Stack open?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Feb 16 12:56:45 EST 2010


Klaus on-rev wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
>> Andrew Kluthe wrote:
>>
>>> I need to check to see if a stack is open. Not sure of the syntax or
>>> even if
>>> that can be done.
>> Besides other suggestions given, you can also use:
>>
>> If there is a stack "stackName" then...
> 
> sorry, but this does not work as one might exspect! :-)
> 
> If there is a stackfile "stackname.rev" in the defaultfolder then this will also resolve to true
> even if this stack is NOT open.

It will also return true if there is a substack with that name, whether 
it is open or not. Also it returns true if a stack has been closed but 
has its destroystack property set to false, in which case it is still in 
RAM though not open.

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