Save as defaulting to Legacy Livecode Stack (7_0)

[M-A Kuttner]

Hi all. I've been writing a stack for a number of months now. I started in LC Community 9_6_2 and I'm now using LC 9_6_5 . Every time I Save As, the "Save as Type:" pulldown defaults to "Legacy Livecode Stack (7_0)", even though the version I'm working from was saved as "Livecode Stack" (and was started using Vers 9 in the first place). This happened in the previous version of LC I was using as well as the current one. Any pointers on what's going on here? Is it even saving as a current version stack? If it isn't, I'm a bit concerned that it may be contributing to some other flakiness.

Thanks in advance!

PS - dots are replaced with underscores in the versions above because the forum software thinks I'm trying to post a URL.

[Klaus]

Hi M-A Kuttner,

PS - dots are replaced with underscores in the versions above because the forum software thinks I'm trying to post a URL.

due to lots of spamming here in the forum, you need to have a least seven postings before you can post e.g. active links.
And obviously something like 9.5.5 is considered as link by the forum software.


Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

Any pointers on what's going on here?

If you do a "straight" Save LiveCode will save your stuck in the current format.

AND, it is true that is you do a "Save As" for some odd reason LiveCode offers the version 7 format
as default (and I don't know why), but this is easily circumvented:
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[M-A Kuttner]

Thanks very much! I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just me.

[Klaus]

Please check -> minStackFileVersion in the dictionary to see the technical reason behind this "feature".

[stam]

I can't reproduce this issue. I'm not in the habit of 'saving as' as i read somewhere it's better to just duplicate the file itself.

I opened an older stack created in 9.x
The minStackFileVersion of the stack is empty and cannot be set

Doing a 'save as' defaults to the standard format, with options to save as legacy formats:

[richmond62]

That is very useful to know.

[LCMark]

@M-A Kuttner : So the logic in the IDE (and engine) goes to great lengths to ensure two things:
1. that you don't accidentally lose data as a result of saving a stack in a format which doesn't support all controls and properties your stack contains
2. that you don't accidentally save a stack in a format which would prevent it being opened by an older version

If you don't specify an explicit version, or specify a version which is >= 7, it will save the stackfile in the earliest format (>=7) which it can without there being any data loss.

If you specify a version < 7, then it will save it in the specified version - but the IDE will warn you that data loss might occur.

Basically, the engine can tell exactly what stackfile format is needed for a stack in terms of version 7 formats and onwards, but cannot tell if a stack could be saved in a version earlier than that - so it doesn't try.

[M-A Kuttner]

Thanks! I just posted another question about a corrupted stack. Could this be because I've been trying to save in a version above 7_0? I haven't added any extensions to it, though I did recently add a menu.

[richmond62]

Could this be because I've been trying to save in a version above 7_0?

Assuming you are using a newer version than LC 7: because if you aren't LC 7 would not give you the
option to save in a newer version.

If, for the sake of argument, you are using 9.6.x the natural thing when you perform a SAVE
(as opposed to a SAVE AS) is for LC 9.6.x to save your stack in the version 9 format which
should cause NO problems whatsoever.

To be honest, I think that the reason for your stack becoming corrupted lies elsewhere.

I just posted another question about a corrupted stack.

Where did you post that, because I cannot find it?

Can you repost that Q here?

[richmond62]

it's better to just duplicate the file itself

Possibly, but it is useful to append a version number to the thing whichever way you do things, otherwise
you can end up in a terrible pother.

[M-A Kuttner]

Thank you Richmond. I appreciate your taking the time to respond.

Where did you post that, because I cannot find it?

Can you repost that Q here?

It's posted at the top of the same forum as this question - Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Should be one or two questions under this one. The name of my post is "Stack getting flaky".

Cheers
M-A