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Thank you Jacqueline for these explanations. Is there a reason you need it? I suppose not. Normally, the cantDelete of my stacks is false but when a stack has a variable number of cards and the user can easily delete cards, I feared that the user would delete all the cards and therefore delete the s...

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:10 am

Maybe you could make a stack that loads with LC as a palette that has a scrolling list of all open stacks and a button to delete a selected stack.

Yes, I have that. It is precisely for my development palette that I needed this kind of script.

After several tests, the following script to close and remove a target stack from memory seems to work. It has to be called from another stack (otherwise, use the File menu article Close and Remove from Memory ). The delete stack command works very cleanly: the main stack and its substacks are close...

I think I found a clue: if the main stack to be closed has its cantDelete property set to true, the delete stack command gets stuck.
Is this a bug due to the double meaning of delete stack?

jacque wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:05 pm

Where is the handler that deletes the stack?

In another stack (a real other main stack).

I wrote a new script based on delete stack . The "delete stack" command works very cleanly: the main stack and its substacks are closed, the script editor is updated but, in some cases, I get the following error: execution error at line n/a (Object: stack locked, or object's script is executing) nea...

Thank you for all your answers :) It's unfortunate that MC chose such a confusing term for removing a stack from memory. Right. I guess it cames from "delete variable" that remove a variable from memory. Anyhow, thanks, I didn't know this use of the "delete" command. @ Bernd : awesome script! Though...

BTW, FolderWasher doesn't delete folders, just files, unless the folders have been compressed as .zip files.
This is an idea for an update to not delete the .zip, .rar, .iso and .dmg files.

2. Stop those messages from shiwing up in the Message Watcher. I bet on this. After digging in the IDE scripts, I wrote this script but I don't like it. 1 - I'm not sure it performs all the actions that should be 2 - I don't really like calling commands from the IDE scripts because they are of cour...

Don't worry, I found the masterpiece: it's at the Louvre Museum!

At least it would be useful if I could retrieve the list of open scripts in the editor. I could thus check if the stack that I want to close has some of its scripts edited, and warn.

Use the lock messages command when a handler performs an action (such as opening a stack) and you want to speed up access by preventing unnecessary navigation messages (such as openStack) from being sent. Well, obviously one of the "unnecessary navigation messages" concerns closing script editor wi...

However, I have to ask: Why are you locking the messages in the first place? For information, it is for the script of a button of a personal development tools palette which must close in a somewhat brutal way the stacks which I no longer use. When developing, I often open several stacks to copy ele...

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:29 am

What am I missing?

Maybe "lock messages" before closing?

lyricalback wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:41 am

So with mistakenly deleted folders, is there any way to restore them?

Well, it depends of your OS.
As it is said in the "Help/About" window:

WARNING: deleted files are moved to trash on MacOS but there are permanently deleted on Windows and cannot be recovered.