revUnplacedGroupIDs has both false positives and negatives?

[Peter Haworth]

I wonder if this might be connected with the thread earlier today about the
difference between sharedBehavior and backgroundBehavior.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015, 10:16 PM Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> We had a thread a month or so ago under "Garbage Collection" I had a stack
> that was much larger than it should be. Contributors suggested using
> revUnplacedGroupIDs to loop thru and delete all the orphans. Well I did it.
> The stack shrunk down but had a group deleted that was placed. I thought in
> all the fiddling around that I might have done it by mistake. Now I know
> what happened but I shot off my foot regardless. Thanks for testing. Hard
> to
> submit a bug on an undocumented feature.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Dr. Hawkins
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:56 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: revUnplacedGroupIDs has both false positives and negatives?
>
> I know that it's undocumented, but has anyone looked seriously at
> revUnplacedGroupIDs?
>
> As I went hunting for crud, missing menus, and whathaveyou,
>
> As I stepped through (after blowing a foot off), I found that some of the
> ids covered by revUnplacedGroupIDs were, in fact, placed.  In one case, it
> was most of the groups on a card.
>
> I also find it *not* consistently finding all of the actually unplaced
> groups, although this is much harder to track down.
>
> Has anyone else experimented with this?
>
> And, I suppose more importantly, can anyone reproduce it?
>
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