sharing stacks between mac and windows

[pkocsis]

Are there any perils transferring a stack (forexample.livecode) from windows to mac (or vice-versa)?

I tried searching the forums, but you can guess what happened when I tried to use the search terms "mac windows share stack"

The same stack, saved in windows vs saved in mac are not identical on a binary level. So, is LiveCode smart enough to deal with opening a stack in windows that was saved by mac? (same question in reverse)...

I'm not necessarily claiming that I've had any trouble going in either direction (mac->windows , windows->mac). Just wondering if anybody has any insight into whether this can cause any issues....

I've filed bug 11166 and am at a complete loss as to what could be causing android app "freezes"...I have gone back and forth (mac/windows) with my stack and ask my above question(s) because that is one thing that has changed (besides the LiveCode version)....the fact that my stack has gone from windows to mac and back to windows.....

[Klaus]

Hi Paul,

I am "exchanging" stack Mac <-> Windows for years and never had any serious problems!

I always avoided UMLAUTS in scripts and object names, which may not been neccessary
anymore these days, but old habits etc...

Sorry, I do not develop for Android.


Best

Klaus

[pkocsis]

Hello Klaus,

Thank you so much for responding. I'm just grasping at straws as to why an app that I've been working on for the last 6 weeks suddenly started freezing up periodically. I haven't made any changes to it for the last few weeks, and one of my testers is reporting that it is freezing up on him with regularity. The only things that have changed is that I started to do my compiles on a mac, and I have been installing the rc's as they have been coming out. I don't know if it is one, or the other (or neither). The compile that started to freeze was done with rc6 on a mac. I recompiled with rc6 on windows and that didn't seem to reduce the freezes. I then recompiled (on windows) with 6.1.0 and the freezes stopped. Of course that would lead one to think there is something up between 6.1.0 and 6.1.1rc6....although I noted that the android .apk's coming out of windows vs mac (identical source code) are different sizes, so I was curious if going back and forth between supplying .apk's from a windows compile vs a mac compile might be involved too....

Ughh....intermittent problems are just the worst to track down.....

Thanks again Klaus

[pkocsis]

Klaus,

Just an FYI...to put an end to my mac<-->windows stack question.

I (now) agree completely that there is probably no problem at all shuffling stacks back and forth from mac to windows..

See bug 11166 as this sucker had me spinning in all kinds of directions as to what the heck could have gone wrong with my stack

Thanks again Klaus,

Paul