Maybe it's a little of both. I was helping out over screen sharing and only saw the openstack handler. The app uses a splash-screen model and we did get the conflict Bob described, where the stack the app opens threw a large number of repeated warnings about same-named stack conflicts. It took several dismissals to get rid of them. I don't know what handlers are in the separate mainstack but he said he fixed "all of them" that had open* and close* handlers. This was before we had a check to see if the revStandaloneProgress stack existed.

Also during builds, a blank script error dialog appeared. It was unresponsive and empty so we don't know what it was trying to report. A stream of other error messages popped in and out of existence so fast we couldn't read them, so they weren't modal but their content is unknown.

All this happened in LC 9 so I had him move back to LC 8. I told him to remove the content stack from memory and from inclusions and try building only the splash app, and that worked, so the problem points to the content stack. When he added it back into the Stacks pane in Standalone Settings the "can't find stack" error happened because the incorrect workaround handler was still in place. I've sent him the updated handler Panos posted and haven't heard back yet, but that should fix it.

The release notes need updating so we have a record of the correct workaround.

Like I said, it isn't the adaptation we need to do that bothers me as much as the idea that a lot of people won't know what's happening and will blame LC. That's what this person did. He had a bit of a rant about how LC didn't test enough and are producing shoddy software. I spent some time explaining what the real issue was and he then understood. But I'm concerned about other customers out there.

On 9/20/18 6:40 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote:
Just out of interest, what sorts of things are causing problems in
openStack while building a standalone that do not happen when opening
stacks for the first time in the IDE? To put it another way, is it simply
the re-running of openStack that is causing problems, or is something going
wrong? Something like a ‘cascade of errors’ sounds like the latter.


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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


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