Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

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Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by pink » Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:09 pm

Here's the sequence...

I open the lcb file in Extension Builder

I click "Test"... everything works fine
I click "Package"... lce file successfully built (confirmed by looking in the directory)
I click "Stop Testing".... so far so good, everything is still there
I click "Install"...the following happens:

1. Everything in my widget's folder is deleted including the lce, the lcb, and the support folder
2. I get an error message saying "extension missing from {FILEPATH}"

If I didn't have the lcb file still open in Atom, I would've lost everything.

I have tried this numerous times (with copies obviously) and it keeps happening around 80% of the time

I've tested this on different machines, with both the Community and Indy versions to see if there were any differences.
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Re: Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by bwmilby » Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:17 am

Are you editing inside the My LiveCode folder?
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Re: Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by pink » Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:13 pm

yes I am... I have a Documents folder in My LiveCode in which I keep my stacks and the extensions I am building
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Re: Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by bwmilby » Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:35 pm

Which OS are you using? I just tried several different locations on my Mac (Sierra) and could not duplicate the behavior. I even tried changing the order (start testing/stop testing/install also worked fine - LCE was built at that point automatically). The only requirement is that you stop testing before you install. This is the full path that I used for the test:

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/Users/milby/Documents/My LiveCode/Documents/Extensions/Primes/primes.lcb
Which installed to:

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/Users/milby/Documents/My LiveCode/Extensions/us.milby.library.primes.0.0.1
This is the file that I'm testing with:
primes.lcb.zip
(1009 Bytes) Downloaded 244 times
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Re: Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by pink » Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:35 pm

using your library, it didn't happen... actually, I don't think it is happening with libraries, only widgets
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Re: Livecode keeps deleting my widget files!!!!!

Post by bwmilby » Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:59 pm

Ok. I’ll pull up a widget and do another test.
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