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Update 10/5/13: I apologize for making this post as the error, though I never pinpointed its cause, was fixed after I took care of some obvious loose ends I'd carelessly left unaddressed in my script. I very much value the help I get from this forum and regret having wasted people's time with this p...

Good news. Simply using "delete stack" instead of "close stack" does the trick. It seems to be really "closing" the stack immediately when I use "delete stack" unlike when I use "close stack". It makes me a little nervous using a command with such a dangerous sounding name, but it seems it really do...

Thanks a lot, Jacque. I see what you mean about it not really being a bug. My complaint is that the LC Dictionary doesn't give enough information about these subtleties. I've found over the years that you really can't learn LC completely from the official documentation. There seems to be extra and o...

Thanks to both of you. I'm not at home and am unable to test "delete stack" yet, but I will. I've found evidence that this is an old problem. I'd say it's a bug. Here's someone with the problem in 2004: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2004-June/038013.html Here's someone with the prob...

No, it works like this: the settings are loaded from the data stack Settings Saver.rev into global variables at launch, and at application close, they're saved again to the Settings Saver.rev file. It's as simple as that, and that works fine. But I've recently gotten fancier because of the Mac App S...

In stand-alone version, the error message doesn't appear, and the stack doesn't freeze on close as it does in the IDE (the code that saves and closes the data stacks is called from the closeStack handler of the mainstack.) However, the data stacks aren't saved properly, which makes me think the same...

Here's a screenshot of the Application Browser, submitted to show that my three data stacks (at the bottom) aren't substacks of my main application stack. If they were, as I understand the documentation, my data stacks would NEVER close until the main stack closed, and that's not the behavior I'm se...

No they are not. If I could figure out how to post a picture in this forum, I'd show you a screenshot of the Application Browser, but no, they're not.

At least it doesn't seem to do so predictably. I have three data stacks in my Mac OS X application: Questions.rev, Settings Saver.rev, and Teams.rev. There's a copy of these three located in the application package, and they are copied to the Classroom Quizshow (the name of my app) folder within the...

It seems like this has to be my fault, and I'll probably figure out that it is, but I thought I'd ask if anybody has seen this before. A strange thing is happening in my application, both the IDE and the standalone. As I use the app (going from card to card then back), text in fields is slowly creep...

The solution I came up with is completely different, but it mimics what you see in the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer: When the user clicks on a line in the list field, a heretofore invisible field appears, positioned exactly over the text on the underlying field. This newly visible field contains t...

Thanks, Mark! That script seems to have done the trick. I've sampled the objects in my stack with Message Box scripts like: put the custompropertysets of button "GoToCheckIn" of card "Welcome" of stack "Heimdallr" ...and I'm not seeing any geometry-related properties anymore. Super. Thanks again. Yo...

My stack has become "infected" with Geometry Manager information. Using the "Remove All" button in the Geometry section of the Property Inspector apparently doesn't work, so I'm trying to do it with a script: local tCount = 0 repeat for each line thisCard in the cardNames of stack "Heimdallr" repeat...

I'm using an ODBC connection to a Microsoft Access database. Using the ODBC Data Source Administrator [In Windows 7: Control Panels --> Administrative Tools --> Data Sources (ODBC)], I can create connections using either a "User DSN" or a "System DSN", and either will work with my LiveCode app. It s...

I don't know, Warren, but yes, I am doing this as a desktop app.