Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
Probably unrelated, but I have noticed that text that has been produced in a PDF via their OCR tool will have hidden characters in it that will prevent me from inserting or updating records in my SQL database with that data. The SQL generates an error as though there were nothing beyond the

Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Corbett
I had to do this as well. In the end it was a group that had two fields in it. I assumed it was a field property that I either could not find or could not change and submitted a bug report. Since my problem was present in 6.7. or 7, nothing was investigated. e On Jan 30, 2015, at 7:27 AM,

Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Even setting the filename to empty might be enough. (this way, any references in the stack that use the stackname won't be broken). When this is done, when you save it, rather than just saving it brings up the filename dialog as if it were a new stack, and if you try to save it in the same place

Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-01-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
So far I've determined that stripping out every line of code from the stack doesn't fix the problem. Deleting every control does. Now I'm going through to figure out which control is poisonous to 6.5.2 On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: I have a stack that

Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-01-30 Thread tbodine
Is it feasible to make a handler for stacks being opened that would detect old version stacks and open them copies of them as untitled in the new stack format while leaving the legacy stack as is? -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

Re: stackfileversion and locking 6.5.2

2015-01-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
well that didn't take long :-P It turns out that there is one field in the stack -- delete the contents of that field, and the stack opens fine in 6.5.2. I copied the contents of the field and pasted into Pages, then deleted the contents of the field, and the file opened fine in 6.5.2. I then