On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > Just FYI, I just got this from the mother ship. I was under the impression > that the system property > > the stackFileVersion > > showed the file format (7.0 or earlier) of the currently open stack. It > doesn’t: all it shows is the format that any new stack will have when created > in the IDE. To find out what format your stack actually has, I quote Neil > Roger who was kindly writing to me about a stack that was puzzling me (see my > earlier mails with the above subject line): > >> The easiest way to show this is by opening your stack in a text editor and >> looking >> at the first 8 bytes of data. In the case of your stack, it returns >> REVO5500. >> If the stack was in the 7.0 format, it would be REVO7000. > > When I switched from LC 6.x series to 7.x, I assumed my ‘saves’ would save in > the new format. They didn’t. That explains a lot. I suppose everyone else > here already knows that you have to do a ‘Save As…’ to get the new format - > but just in case…
And don’t forget this setting in Preferences > Files and Memory: /_/ Preserve stack file version on stacks saved in legacy format. DNA Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ 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
