Sivakatirswami,

I thought about your problem so more and have the following observations, questions and recommendations.

I don't think the problem is with the release version of Constellation you are using but, it is possible that there is a problem with one of Constellation's pre-release "buddies", Object Gadget.

Do you have Object Gadget open when this is happening? There is a known issue with Object Gadget where it verifies its list and inadvertently keeps the stacks in memory because it likes to test every object's parent stack by its long stack name to see if it exists. Please test without Object Gadget and see if it makes any difference.

Object Gadget it not released software, and it has known issues. For this reason, I only use Object Gadget when I need it for something and keep it close if I don't need it--and I have no difficulties with it. That's also why it is discounted so that it costs about two dollars right now. Once we get Object Gadget released, this will no longer be an issue (and the discounted price will go away, too).

Please let me know how your test without Object Gadget goes--or how you do with discretionary use of it as indicated above.

It would seem unlikely to me that your stacks are corrupted. My experience with corrupted stacks usually means the stack will not open and if it does it appears to have extremely sluggish behavior and slows down the IDE noticeably.

Also, all of the products we sell are pretty stingy with doling out custom properties and there are preferences to prevent them from being used at all. I don't believe custom props would cause your problem, in any case.

There are many people (I am becoming one) who prefer to store all data outside the stack--in a text file using XML or the like. Like others, when saving on close in the IDE, if something "unexpected" happens with the IDE, it can affect the process of saving and THEN corruption can take place. I haven't had problems with explicit saving in the IDE, whereas I have had problems with the implicit save you noted in your closeStack handler.

Best,

Jerry

http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/constellation.htm
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On Nov 13, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

The past few days REv is repeatedly asking me if I want to purge a stack in memory with the same name... Most of my stacks have

on closestack
   save this stack
end close stack

And for some reason, if Constellation is running, this puts me into an infinite loop where Rev is unable to save (because there is a stack in memory with the same name) ... I click save or purge or cancel, it doesn't matter... the msg comes right back..

if I don't boot constellation, I don't get into a loop but still though all my stacks are set to Destroy on close, rev keeps asking to purge a previously closed stack if I open another which has the same name.

I'm thinking something has been corrupted or a custom prop is "stuck" somewhere that thinks these stacks are in memory when they or not, or they are not being destroyed when they should be... any ideas? Rebooting Rev does not change the behavior.

Sivakatirswami



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