Jacque- Saturday, July 23, 2011, 11:46:53 AM, you wrote:
> On 7/22/11 10:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Jacque- >> >> Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:49:28 PM, you wrote: >> >>> On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >>>> Jacque- >>>> >>>> Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: >>>> >>>>> You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the >>>>> Files and Memory section of prefs. >>>> >>>> Unless you create stacks by script, in which case the destroyStack >>>> preference is ignored... sad but true... >>>> >> >>> For real? But...I do that all the time. I guess I never actually checked >>> on it, but I don't remember the files hanging around in memory either. >>> Is that some new glitch? Does it also happen in standalones? (I wonder >>> how you'd check that in a standalone.) >> >> BZ #3190 (17 October 2005), but as Mark Waddingham attempts to explain >> "This isn't actually a bug." >> > I see. I think I agree with Mark, but in any case it doesn't affect my > code. I always script the destroystack property specifically after > creating a new stack in code, and I almost always do it in a standalone > (to make a user prefs stack usually.) It's good to know about it though. You can also set the destroyStack of the templateStack before creating a script and get the same result. Still, I do wish stack creation would respect the IDE preferences setting so that we wouldn't end up with little surprises like this. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
