In 2017 I reported a bug related to opening a series of stack files all with the same name. The problem was that I could not get the old stacks to go away and eventually I would end up in the “duplicate stack name” dialog infinite loop.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19075 Panos suggested putting a lock messages / unlock messages set of statements around the code that opened and accessed each stack and that did seem to fix the problem I was having (though not the bug in LiveCode). Maybe you could do something similar here? Another thing I considered was to rename each old stack with a unique suffix so that the names would no longer clash, even if the stack ended up staying in memory for longer than necessary… > On 6 Apr 2023, at 13:45, Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip! But unfortunately already tried that! I only try to work > with one stack at a time. > > If I set a breakpoint and step over the line > delete stack “teststack" > > And then try to open a new stack with the same name there is no dialog box > If I run the same code (without any breakpoints). I can wait forever (well > kind of) and the stack will still be among the mainStacks. If I run your > suggest code with a counter addition: > > repeat while "teststack" is among the lines of the mainStacks > delete stack "teststack" > add 1 to tCount > end repeat > put tCount > > I get an output of 1 but again if I bring up the message box after the code > Is executed and do a “put the mainStacks” the stack is back again! If I run a > loop over all my 25 stacks (or so) with the same name using the code above it > loops through several stacks in quick succession but then I got the dialog > again, and again, and again, and again… until I force quitted LiveCode. > > Created there stacks teststack1, 2 and 3 in the same folder all with the same > name “teststack”. If I then run the following code from another stack in the > same folder: > > set the itemDelimiter to slash > put item 1 to -2 of the filename of this stack into tPath > repeat with i = 1 to 3 > open stack tPath & "/teststack" & i & ".livecode" > repeat while “teststack" is among the lines of the mainStacks > delete stack "teststack" > end repeat > end repeat > > Then I get a dialog asking what I want to do with teststack1 before I load > teststack2 and teststack2 is still open after the code has run! If I create 6 > stacks and run the same code (but from 1 to 6 of course) I get into the > unstoppable dialog loop and needs to quit LiveCode! > > I’ve update the bug report https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24163 > with new example ( https://quality.livecode.com/attachment.cgi?id=11421 ) > that causes my LiveCode to get into the endless dialog loop. So, don’t run > this if you have unsaved work in another stack! > > If it works for you Jacqueline, what platform are you using? Maybe this is a > Mac only problem? I’m running MacOS Ventura 13.1 on a MacBook Pro (M1 Max). > > :-Håkan > >> On 5 Apr 2023, at 21:27, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I just created four same-named stacks and ran my suggested handler wrapped >> with timer commands. All four were deleted in 67 milliseconds. LC 10.0.0 DP >> 4. >> >> put the milliseconds into tStart >> repeat while "test" is in the mainstacks >> delete stack "test" >> end repeat >> answer the milliseconds - tStart >> >> Ralph's idea to use filter is good too but slightly slower, at (a fairly >> insignificant) 79 milliseconds: >> >> put the milliseconds into tStart >> filter the mainstacks with "test*" into tStacks >> repeat for each line l in tStacks >> delete stack l >> end repeat >> answer the milliseconds - tStart >> >> On 4/5/23 10:15 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >>> Whoa! No I'm not! There's over 300 mainstacks just from Livecode! >>> Bob S >>> On Apr 5, 2023, at 08:07, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> Oooh Pro Tip #276 from Jacque. I'm gonna use that one. >>> Bob S >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Phil Jimmieson (He/Him) University of Liverpool, Computer Science Department Ashton Bldg, Ashton Street, Liverpool. 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