How to suppress the Modal Purge dialog? -- Name space conflict

[Tom Glod]

Sorry, right you mentioned that in one of the paragraphs..... but there is
a way to get all the stacks opened....... but making sure that before a
stack is processed, the name is returned to what it must be to be exported
and work.

Just making the assumption that you can only process one open stack at a
time.

Or are the stacks all running code outside of being "opened"?


On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 6:12 PM Tom Glod <tom at makeshyft.com> wrote:

> Hmmm...first thing that comes to mind.
>
> Can you check if the same name is already open and then rename the
> existing one before you try to open the second one?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 5:54 PM R.H. via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I have a need to programmatically open about 200 stacks, do something, and
>> the close them. In this case, for documentation reasons, I take a
>> screenshot from every stack, every card, and every substack and their
>> cards
>> to export it.
>>
>> My problem is that there are number of stacks that have the same stack
>> name
>> (apart from a different file name), and loading them into memory (opening
>> them) sometimes creates a naming conflict if a stack with the same name
>> already is loaded -- and these are library stacks, etc.
>>
>> The known modal dialog appears to allow to purge such stack. This dialog
>> seems to appear before even any error message could be intercepted.
>>
>> Can this purging be automated and the dialog be suppressed? I found no way
>> (using the "try" construct, locking messages, etc.) to suppress this
>> dialog
>> and just do the purge from script.
>>
>> I assume that it could eventually be done messing with the strack in the
>> IDE that generates the dialog. But I do not really want to do this for
>> principle reasons.
>>
>> Another way is to make sure that there are never same stack names (which
>> are only known after opening), but that is almost impossible to control
>> and
>> might break certain stack relationships -- and I am not just talking about
>> my own stacks, but also stacks from third parties, and opens sources.
>>
>> Of course, I can make sure that there are is never more than the main
>> stack
>> in memory before opening any other stack -- except the IDE stacks. But in
>> my special case this is not a good solution as the app relies heavily on a
>> number of open stacks. At least, I am still trying to find a better
>> solution.
>>
>> Maybe a good feature for future would be to support name spaces as in
>> other
>> development environments so that such naming conflicts may be avoided.
>> Stacks and other resources could then share a name space, and then there
>> is
>> only the need to have unique names within such name space. Some people
>> (including myself) already mimic this using prefixes to a name. But that
>> is
>> just a starting point and difficult to control. The concept of name spaces
>> goes beyond that.
>>
>> Any ideas ? )))
>>
>> have fun...
>> Roland
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