Stacks whose names start with "rev"

[Geoff Canyon]

It's self-serving except for the fact that I give it away for free, but
Navigator solves problems like this for breakfast. It has no problems
dealing with "rev" stacks -- it has to, since otherwise I'd have to resort
to the IDE to develop Navigator ;-)

The only limitations I know of that Navigator doesn't much solve are the
fact that "rev" stacks don't throw errors (this has cost me much pain and
suffering) and Navigator doesn't distinguish between IDE "rev" stacks and
non-IDE "rev" stacks, so enabling access to "rev" in Navigator exposes the
IDE (including all of Navigator's files). I had thought about making that
access more granular, but until now that would have seemed to be only for
me. I'll think about it and let you know what I come up with. But in
the meantime, what Navigator provides right now works for me, and would (I
think) help you too.

gc

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:09 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Some of my client's stacks must begin with names starting with "rev"
> (i.e., Bible study, "Revelations".) This of course wreaks havoc in the
> IDE, aside from just omitting the stacks from file lists. We have tried
> setting gRevDevelopment to true and turning on the option to view IDE
> stacks, but lots of other things still fail. Objects can't be selected
> with the edit tool and other oddities occur that make the stacks
> uneditable.
>
> Temporarily renaming the stack sometimes works, but throws errors all
> over the place when scripts try to navigate or use the long ID for other
> purposes.
>
> But now something else is occuring, totally unintelligible. Normally two
> stacks are open, an index stack "TSMain" and a mainstack "Revelations".
> When trying to navigate to Revelations by any method -- opening it from
> Finder, clicking the name in the index stack, etc. -- this error is thrown:
>
> "A stack with the same name as the one you are trying to load is already
> open. Before loading
>   /Users/<name>/Documents/<product>/Revelations.livecode what do you
> want to do with stack
>   /Users/<name>/Documents/<product>/TSMain.livecode, TSMain?"
>
> Besides the issue that the two "conflicting" stacks do not have the same
> name, the TSMain stack is listed twice, once as a full file path
> followed by the short name.
>
> Huh? This is under LC 9.0.1 but also happens in LC 8.
>
> How would you manage working with a stack whose name starts with "rev"?
> We are planning to change the name somehow if we can think of a good
> substitute, but for now it needs to stay as-is. And what's the deal with
> the weird conflict message? There are no duplicate stacks in RAM.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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