Hi Brian Yes I am. It was a very insidious problem - at first I thought it was Dropbox playing up because all the versions were faulty - but when I had it backing up on the desktop as well using Max's plugin and checking for the first 5 or six updates and all ok then 2 hours or more of work all bad - not once but 3 times I then looked at the code and at the end of the stack script there were some extraneous characters specifically : ŽŽIDMŽŽ
If I removed and saved I would get a stack corruption on next load , if I left them in after some changes - I would assume additions to the main stack I'm not sure the stack would load saying it couldn't find 2 substacks. When I loaded the stack as a binary the full stack scripts of both substacks were there but they could not be seen in the PB. As I say a simple loader that could search for a "stack" and save it as a single stack file would be a real boon - It doesn't happen often (now) thank god but when it does it can save hours of time. Regards Lagi On 24 January 2018 at 18:52, Brian Milby <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you talking about the binary format of a stack file? > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:35 AM Lagi Pittas via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have just spent a good few hours "playing" - I wished - with the Text >> formatting of field. >> >> Specifically It was on LC9 but I then installed 8.1.8 and the problem is >> on >> there as well. >> The problem was that all new fields (and old fields) a card had the "BOLD" >> textstyle try as I might I couldn't switch off the bold unless I ticked >> underline or italic or any other textstyle - There isnt a Plain button as >> in version 6 anymore - or I cant find it. >> If I press fixedline height and click on italic i can then switch off bold >> and italic but it comes back on when i switch fixedline height off. >> >> Anyway I did some more testing and it seems it was because this stack was >> originally created in v6.11 - and I moved onto 9 when I got a corruption >> that kept coming back - yes I know backups - I had MAXVs backup plugin >> running and dropbox version history but they were saving the corrupted >> stack although it was all fine and dandy in the IDE. >> >> So the upshot is (I think) one of loading a legacy stack. >> >> On a related note the corrupted stack was "losing" a substack used for >> reporting and a library stack but not alwayat the same time when I was >> rebuilding from a working backup. - Lost days. >> >> I wrote a little binary loader and managed to get the code for both stacks >> back - so they were both still in the stack but were not showing in the >> projectbrowser. >> >> Can someone point me to the file where this loading of stacks is done and >> the structure because I think we need some sort of stack loader for some >> such instances in the future >> >> Regards Lagi >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
