Not so much, as it only gets triggered when closing the stack, and I want to
set the dirty flag immediately when the user changes some content. Or as
immediately as possible.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
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On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:20 AM, dunb...@aol.co
Right. Then I have to figure out what to hash, which is do-able. But it doesn't
answer the most important question: I need to trap a general message to trigger
this so as to set the dirty flag on the window. I suppose the backup plan would
be a send-in-time handler to check the hash periodically
Peter.
Does the "saveStackRequest" help"
Craig Newman
-Original Message-
From: Peter M. Brigham, MD
To: How to use LiveCode
Sent: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 6:07 am
Subject: needs saving
Anyone know what the IDE uses to decide whether to ask about saving a stack
when
Hi Peter,
As soon as a field gets focused, revolution puts "edited" into
gRevStackStatus[short name of this stack]. That's a very bad trick and means
that your stack is almost always "edited".
A much better way is to calculate the hash of relevant data and compare this
with a new hash value. I
Anyone know what the IDE uses to decide whether to ask about saving a stack
when it closes? I'm trying to implement a "markDirty" routine for the Mac. I
have a frontscript that catches (then passes) closefield and sets the
modifiedMark of the stack, but that won't catch field contents modified b