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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.

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

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

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

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:

That is very useful to know.

@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.

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.

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?

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.

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