from the dictionary entry for "Delete" : Important! You cannot delete the object whose script holds a currently executing handler.
Can makes thing confusing in some cases ;-) Le 23 mars 2013 à 19:34, Graham Samuel a écrit : > Sadly, exactly the same thing. If the IDE can purge a stack, why can't I? > Maybe the delete command fires some other handler I don't know about. I will > try to reduce the thing to a very simple test. I'm using LC 5.5.4 on a Mac, > by the way. > > Graham > > On 23 Mar 2013, at 18:54, [email protected] wrote: > >> Graham. >> >> >> Without digging into this at all, what happens if you delete the file last? >> >> >> Craig Newman >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Graham Samuel <[email protected]> >> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 1:28 pm >> Subject: Can't delete a stack >> >> >> I've got a stack that I want to purge in the way the IDE does. At the time >> of >> execution of the script below, the stack is in memory with a copy of it in a >> file (the path is in a global 'gDataStackPath'. I want to destroy both. Part >> of >> my script looks like this: >> >> try >> if there is a file gDataStackPath then >> delete file gDataStackPath >> set the cantDelete of stack "myData" to false >> set the destroyStack of stack "myData" to true >> set the destroyWindow of stack "myData" to true >> delete stack "myData" -- this should remove it from memory >> >> This deletes the file as expected, and the IDE shows that the stack is still >> in >> memory, but the script crashes on the 'delete stack..' line. The error is >> 361 >> "can't set this property". >> >> What did I do wrong? >> >> TIA >> >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
