At 8:40 AM -0400 10/9/2016, Paul Dupuis wrote:
Your paused script continues executing, but now the defaultStack has
changed.
As a precaution against users of the app doing (resonable) things like
this, I now explicitly set the defaultStack after any ask or answer file
dialog. I also use code such as
on handler
put the defaultStack into tPreserveDefaultStack
set the defaultStack to <this stack by name>
... my code...
set the defaultStack to tPreserveDefaultStack
end handler
So that if the hander is called from another stack it does not exit with
the defaultstack changed.
At this point, I'm starting to wonder whether the defaultStack should
be redesigned/re-specced to make it more predictable.
I don't think it's feasible to actually make major changes in the way
the defaultStack works, but possibly a new property could be designed
that acts in such a way that workarounds like this aren't normally
needed. Setting and re-setting the defaultStack to make sure it's
right is almost as annoying as specifying the stack every time you
refer to an object (which I sometimes do anyway, for fear of the
defaultStack changing from under me).
If it were being designed from scratch, what would the ideal behavior
be for a targetStack property? Should it remain unchanged while a
script is running (unless set explicitly)?
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