Are you opening all the same-named stacks at once? LC warns that this
produces unreliable results and should be avoided. The "delete stack"
command does work from a script, but if there are several open with the
same name there's no telling what the engine will do. The normal way to
handle this is to only open one, delete it when done with it, and then open
the next.
But if it is necessary for some reason to have multiple same-named stacks
open then check the mainstacks rather than the openstacks. The mainstacks
function should report all stacks in memory, not just the ones that are
open on screen.
Untested, but try this:
repeat until "stackName" is not in the mainstacks -- whatever the duplicate
stack name is
delete stack "stackName"
end repeat
It might work. Also, check your LC preferences in the Files and Memory
pane. Tick the option to close the stack even if its deleteStack property
is false. That should allow you to close any stack and remove it from
memory just with the close box.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On April 4, 2023 9:25:08 AM Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
When my students turn in their assignments all their individual stacks
usually have the same name. If I try to loop through all of them there
seems to be no way to close one stack and move on to the next one (with the
same name) without getting the dialog asking if I want to save, purge or
cancel the previous stack?!
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