FYI, I made a test stack where the destination stack’s only script was the “start using” script referred to below. Livecode did not crash. I don’t know why it crashes my app, but I will investigate further to try and pin down the source, over the next day or so. Bill
> On Jan 1, 2016, at 9:50 AM, William Prothero <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > > Folks: > First, Happy New Year. I’ve gotten obsessed with a very odd crash that’s > stopping my progress, so here it is. > > I am on Mac El-Capitan 10.11.2 and Livecode 7.1. I have a splash stack that > launches my main stack, which has several substacks. When I load my main > stack, I “start using “ all of the library stacks that I need. There is a > handler in one of the library stacks that calls a script in the main stack’s > stack script. This script (in the library stack) can’t find the handler in > the stack that calls it. So, I tried to “start using “ the main stack. This > crashes livecode. > > Is it bad practice to “start using “ the main application stack? When I look > at “the target”, I get the reference to the button where the action was > initiated, but the IDE says that it can’t find the handler. > > Here’s the sequence: > > --Launch splash app > > —button click on splash app opens the main app > > —script in cd 1 initializes the main app and “starts using” the library apps > and substacks > > Resut: If, in the initialization routine (in the card script of card 1 of the > main app), I do: > > put the name of this stack into sName > if not (the stacksinuse contains sName) then > start using sName > end if > > —result: livecode crashes. No error messages, just disappears. > > If I don’t put the above statements in the initialization routine, LC does > not crash, but then > handlers in one of the library stacks can’t find the function handler in the > main app stack script. > > ?? This is quite frustrating and caps of a day of tedious coding that I > thought was finished, until this problem surfaced. Livecode crashes without > any dialog, error report. It just disappears. > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > Best, > Bill > > William Prothero, Ph.D. > University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus > proth...@earthednet.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
