On Dec 23, 2003, at 9:07 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
HAS anyone had the clone stack do this to them????
I need to clone about another 50 substacks of the master substack and don't want to corrupt my app again.
Any help is going to really make me calm down.
Not exactly- but here are some things to watch out for
1) Close the application browser while you are doing what you described. I think it would just be safer because - I don't know - gut feeling
2) Never, ever get into a situation where you have stacks or substacks open with the same name. That's a recipe for either stacks/substacks getting lost, or corrupted. That's been bugzillad.
3) If you set the substacks property of the mainstack, and you leave out a substack name, then poof, that substack will be deleted without warning.
I ran into this problem because I sometimes need to clone a substack, then sort the substacks property in a particular way because I have a lot of substacks and I like them to appear sorted, by substack category, in the Application Browser. Application Browser doesn't allow reordering of the stack names, so here is what I do:
clone substack rename cloned stack set the mainstack of the cloned stack open the mainstack's property inspector custom properties | add "substacks" property edit the substacks property in the inspector
but *beware* if the property editor loses keyboard focus, the property will be applied, and you are stuck with it. It's easy to lose substacks this way. My workaround is to use the Emacs keybindings for editing instead of using the mouse :-)
Now maybe I shouldn't be editing the substacks property this way, to get the Application Browser to display the order of stacks I want it to , but IMHO
- App browser should have a feature for re-ordering the display of stacks
- Rev should not do something so drastic as drop substacks without confirming with the user first.
- Rev should fix the naming collisions problem with when stacks have the same name.
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | <http://mindlube.com>
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