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I just upgraded to Big Sur. Now when I "Close and Remove From Memory" LC hangs. I assume this is a bug.

In case the information is useful, it is the dialog which hangs rather than LC. If you click on the underlying stack you can close it after which the hung dialog will either disappear by itself or can be stopped with Ctrl-C. An irritating bug nonetheless. I had more or less forgotten about it after stopping using that menu option when it first appeared.

Thanks for the reply.

You are right. It is not LC that hangs. It is the dialog. Cmd-c does close the dialog. That’s better. I have to actually quit LC to switch to a different project.

But, LC seems glitchy under Big Sur. I might decide to downgrade.

Thanks.

poco wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:15 am

... Cmd-c does close the dialog. That’s better. I have to actually quit LC to switch to a different project.

That is not what I observed in testing (again just now). Which version of MacOS 11.x are you running?

Using "Big Sur" MacOS 11.2.1 with LC 9.6.1, when the dialog hangs click on the stack window. The dialog should disappear. You can now save and close the stack (the project if it is the main stack) using any normal means other than "Close and Remove from Memory" and then open any other project without other problems. I have not found it necessary to restart LC. Is your experience of these steps different?

If the dialog should hang around after closing the original project then it can be aborted separately.

eta: the only time I have needed to restart is when a stack name conflict occurs despite destroystack being true. That is another matter.

poco wrote: Thanks for the reply.

You are right. It is not LC that hangs. It is the dialog. Cmd-c does close the dialog. That’s better.
I have to actually quit LC to switch to a different project.

But, LC seems glitchy under Big Sur. I might decide to downgrade.

Well, guess it's a good candidate for a bug report...


Not sure if this will make you feel better, but
personnaly I never use this option menu: "Close and Remove from Memory"

Instead, I'm setting on these 2 stack properties.


Then, clicking on the red button of the stack window
will close the stack and remove it from memory.

Regards,

Thierry

From memory that used to happen with LC 9.6.0 or 9.6.1, i remember noticing this as soon as Big Sur came out -- I think they fixed that ages ago (i'm running 9.6.2 RC2 and certainly don't have this problem any more).

I think you said you'r using 9.6.1 -- head to https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ and grab 9.6.2 RC2!
It fixes a number of small glitches with Big Sur...

stam wrote: I think they fixed that ages ago (i'm running 9.6.2 RC2 and certainly don't have this problem any more).
I think you said you'r using 9.6.1 -- upgrade your version

Happy ending story.... the best