> > With the 'close' command? If the user closes a stack by clicking into
>> the window box, it leaves the stack in the state that leads to the
>> purge dialog??
>
>It shouldn't, at least if it's a main stack with no substacks and
>you've set its destroyStack property to true.
Don't know how, but it happens!
> > > > How should I close them such that they fully disappear, but can be
>> >> reopened at any time with either 'modeless path/stack.mc' type
>> >> command - or any other sensible way of opening them? I don't want to
>> >> save anything in these support stacks - they are used for printing
>> >> and displaying on-screen help. They are outside the main stacks I'm
>> >> developing so they can be shared between them rather than repeat them
>> >> within each main CBT stack.
>> >
>> >You should ask yourself if you really need to remove these stacks from
>> >memory at all. If you have enough and/or your needs are not that
>>great, its
>> >often best to leave stacks in memory after closing so they load faster next
>> >time.
>>
>> If I just let them stay in memory and then try opening them with
>> 'modeless', I get the purge message I was having trouble with. How
>> do I open a stack that may be in memory already or may not have been
>> opened yet in a way such that I don't get the 'purge' dialog
>> appearing? Is the trick to close them in some special way, i.e. not
>> by the user simply clicking on the close window box?
>
>There's something else going on here: you should never get that dialog
>if you just reopen the same stack, regardless of whether it is
>retained in memory or not. When you *do* get it is when you try to
>open a stack that has the same name but a different file name. The
>most likely cause of this is using two different paths to get to the
>stack (are you changing the directory property at any point?), but
>setting the fileName property of the stack can also cause it, as can
>downloading a stack via HTTP and then using "save as" to save it to
>disk.
I have two CBT stacks in folders 'SafetyScreen' (containing cbt1) &
'SafetyAdmin' (containing cbt2). At the same level in the file
structure, I have an additional folder called 'SafetySupport' which
contains support stacks - cbtHelp.mc, formprint.mc and certprint.mc.
Both cbt stacks have the same addresses to the support stacks?!
Cheers
Peter
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