Graham, You could get the name of the substack from 'this stack'
The mainstack script: on closestackrequest put the short name of this stack into tryingToClose ---handle tryingToClose here---- end closestackrequest Regards Vikram ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution user discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:21 PM Subject: path of a 'closeStackRequest' > I must be doing something really dumb, but I don't understand what. > In the app I'm developing (Revo 1.1.1 on MacOS 9.2.2), I have a > mainstack and a number of substacks. I appear to be getting more than > one 'preOpenStack' message to my main stack, which since my intention > is only to open it once during the whole life of my app, is causing > me considerable bother. > > In the absence of a path-tracing feature in the debugger, I therefore > put this handler into my mainstack: > > on closeStackRequest > answer (the short name of the target)&&"is trying to close the Anchor stack" > pass closeStackRequest > end closeStackRequest > > and went back to testing. I found that when I closed a substack by > clicking on its close box, the handler in the mainstack got called, > with the target being the first card of the substack. There is no > stack script in the substack. What's going on? It looks as if the > 'closeStackRequest' for the substack has got into the message path > for the mainstack and is being applied to the mainstack, but why? If > I want to allow closing of some substacks, either by scripting or by > my user without affecting the mainstack, what do I do? > > All explanations gratefully received, and as usual any pointers to > existing documentation on the subject (I am more than happy to read > up on this stuff, but I am often puzzled as to where to look). > > TIA > > Graham > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
