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HankT

Andycal wrote: Google is still underneath and the image seems to be a mixture of the two.

Should I be clearing something out before opening the new page?

Your code likely has "BrowserNewInstance" in it which will create a new browser object each time it's run.

HankT

Hi Hank,

you must be on a mac since revcopyfile uses applescript to do the copying

Yes, I'm working on a Mac, hence posted in the Mac OS Category :)

Thanks for confirming my guess about the reasoning. I was pretty sure, but it's nice to get a confirmation.

I thought about using the PUT style ...

HankT

Hi Hank,

What about using the shell function?

Thanks Mark. I'm not much of a UNIX guy, but this is what I came up with as my sample, and it works well enough for my purposes that I'll be able to use it in my actually stack.

ON mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
answer file "Select file to Duplicate"
IF it ...

HankT

Dear Hank,

Why exactly do you want to rename a file?

I don't, I want to Duplicate a file. The side effect of doing so within the same directory is that the original fine is getting renamed (see the sample code in the first msg to try it)

I think what is happening is that the revCopyFile command ...

HankT

Perhaps you want to use the rename command?

It still gets messy because I'd need to figure out what sourceFile's new name is. If SourceFile's name is MyFile, then it will be renamed as "MyFile 2", however if it's named "MyFile 147" then it'll be renamed "MyFile 148", so I'd have to test if the ...

HankT

If I revCopyFile to a different directory it works as expected, however if I try to revCopyFile into the same directory with a new name, the original file gets a " 2" appended to it.

As a simple example
ON mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
answer file "Select the file to Duplicate"
IF it is not empty THEN ...

HankT

Philhold wrote:Where can I find a list of even handlers and what objects they apply to?

The Dictionary, under the Help menu.

Hank

HankT

Philhold wrote: how would I apply it to a field and what would I use to trigger the function?

Put this in the field's script

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ON closeField
    put toupper(me) into me
END closeField

Leaving the field by tabbing out, clicking in another field, etc, would trigger it.

Hank

HankT

That's exactly where I was headed :)

Yes, that solves the issue in both the little test stack as well as the real set of stacks in which I originally ran into this.

Thanks for working this out with me, Mark, it's the little rev quirks that can be the most frustrating. Glad this one can be set ...

HankT

Being able to reproduce it is at least a step in the right direction (it at least tells me that it's not an issue solely on my end).

The destroyWindow property is set to TRUE because when it's set to FALSE the stack shrinks as a standalone (damned if you do...).

I'm thinking perhaps if it is set ...

HankT

Hank,
I know this looks silly

Thanks, Mark, and no it doesn't look silly at all, i've used similar hacks to get around a weird behavior before. Unfortunately, it does not change the "ever growing" issue in this case.

Perhaps it's time to play with setting and unsetting the destroyWindow prop ...

HankT

I did leave out one detail, this behavior is only in a standalone, the stack does not continually grow in the development environment. Still, I'll try disabling GLX in case there's some weird interaction during the compile.

I have gone through the stacks carefully there is no hidden code

here's ...

HankT

Now I'm finding my problem is the inverse. each time i close the stack, it grows in height by 27 pixels

I made a test stack containing a substack. The only code in the card script of the mainStack opens the substack. The only controls in the substack are a button that displays the height of the ...

HankT

Thanks for taking the time to give a full hypothesis. I consider myself very well versed in Rev, but I would never have thought that this would have been related, let alone figured it out on my own.

Thanks again!

HankT

Thank you, Mark, changing the destroyStack does indeed appear to solve the issue.

Can you give me any insight into why? It doesn't seem like a property that would be related to a resizing issue.

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Re: Funny revbrowser behaviour

Using revCopyFile to duplicate a file renames the original