LC makes my stack a substack

[oldummy]

This problem harkens back to the problem I encountered earlier that still exists, but if someone here can help me I believe if someone here can explain this to me, it will fix my original issue.
I have two stacks residing in the same folder. One is destined to be the application stack. It is simply a means to navigate to the second stack.The second is destined NOT to be a substack.
When I open the first stack, it is it's own mainstack as it should be. When I navigate to the second stack, the inspector says it is a substack of the first stack.
If I click "make Mainstack" it does change to be it's own mainstack.Ok.
Now when I try to save the second stack, windows asks me if I want to replace that stack. Click yes,save and exit.
Now I cannot navigate to the second stack from the first stack.
Instead, I get this error from LC:
Handler: error in statement
Field
go stack "Jukebox2"
mouseup
I have uninstalled and reinstalled LC twice while battling this.

[richmond62]

OK, OK: probably I am being a bit stupid as usual, so please could you explain HOW you open the second stack from the first stack?
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As THAT does something very odd indeed:
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I have NO idea what that stack "revCo..." is.

This, on the other hand works perfectly, with no nonsense about stack "Stack TWO" being a substack of anything:
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[dunbarx]

Hi.

So you want two stacks, the first being your "splash" stack and the second being your "working" stack (or stacks).

Make sure that each resides in its own separate stack file. Each must live that way. If they are currently not, change them.

Craig

[jacque]

There is no syntax error in the reported statement. Can we see the whole handler that opens the second stack?

It may be that LC is looking for the stack in the defaultfolder, which is normally LC's application folder. But in that case I'd expect a "can't find stack" error.

[oldummy]

It is a simple mouseup handle.

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on mouseup 
go stack "jukebox"
end mouseup

[dunbarx]

@oldDummy.

What is different, apart from the name, between:

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go stack "Jukebox"

and:

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go stack "Jukebox2"

??

Craig

[jacque]

When you made the substack into a mainstack, did you also save the original mainstack? If not, then the substack may still be there. I believe LC moves the substack out to a new mainstack and deletes the one embedded in the first mainstack, but if you don't save it the substack will remain.

Try this:
Check that you have a stack "Jukebox.livecode" in the same folder.
Use the project browser to confirm the substack still exists in the first mainstack. If so, delete it.
Save the mainstack.
Close and remove it from memory [in the File menu]
Reopen the mainstack.
Change the field handler to: go stack "Jukebox.livecode"
Try the handler again.

If that still doesn't work then LC is probably looking in the wrong folder. Add an openStack handler in the main splash stack:

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on openStack
  set the defaultfolder to specialFolderPath("resources")
end openStack

Save the mainstack,, close and remove from memory, and then reopen it and try the handler again.

[oldummy]

The jukebox and jukebox 2 issue was just me experimenting with saving the stack as a different name and then exchanging it with the existing stack with a change in the go stack script.
That did not work either.
I believe I've tried adding the .livecode to the name but I will try it to make sure.
Thanks folks.

[richmond62]

Just to be awkward, and return to the original posting:

Why can't one of the stacks be a substack of the other one?

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

Unless any stacks apart from the executable stack are in separate stack files, they won't save changes. Substacks don't cut it.

Craig

[richmond62]

Mind you, you can save data to, say, a text file.

[dunbarx]

Mind you, you can save data to, say, a text file.

Yep, that is the "other" way to do it, likely a favorite for many. I like the splash method.

Craig

[oldummy]

I am going to trash it all as I feel somehow I have corrupted it. My intention now is simple to remake them both and copy every script and object to make another pair of stacks and try the build again.
Thank you all for your suggestions!

[jacque]

I suspect the problem isn't corruption, but if the new stacks fail in the same way then I'd be happy to take a look at them and see if I can find the problem. Or send them now if you want to avoid reproducing everything.

[dunbarx]

oldDummy.

I agree with Jacque, it is not a corruption thing. Somehow it is a problem with LC "finding" the other stack. Currently, are you certain that your mainStack and your "other" stack are both mainStacks, and each live their own stack files? And this would not matter until you create a standalone.

But in the IDE, it should not matter. You might try re-creating that second stack from scratch with a new name, and see if you can navigate to it.

Craig