Strange database error when closing Livecode on Windows

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jul 12 17:28:16 EDT 2012


On 7/12/12 4:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 7/12/12 3:56 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> Maybe.  But it doesn't happen on Macs, only Windows (haven't tried
>> Linux).
>>
>> I hope Livecode doesn't do that on any platform since it's quite possible
>> that applications will want to do some db housekeeping when they are
>> closed
>> and this would prevent them from doing it.
>
> LiveCode does close all databases when the stack closes. It sounds like
> the timing may be different on Windows.
>

Oops, that's wrong. LiveCode closes databases when it quits, not when 
the stack closes. It's noted in the dictionary under revCloseDatabase.

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