How to rebuild corrupted stack ?

[mcelvain]

What is the best way to rebuild a copy of a corrupted stack?

My stack has just started renaming its objects with my variables (perhaps Globals) and renaming my variables in scripts as well.

[FourthWorld]

Stack file corruption of extremely rare in LiveCode.

From the description it sounds like you have an errant script in there somewhere. Rebuilding the stack still just reproduce the error.

What action triggers the renaming? We can probably help diagnose to pinpoint the root cause.

[dunbarx]

What Richard said.

A corrupted stack (rare) generally does not load at all. It is not typically one that misbehaves in the sense that it has stopped "working" properly, and started to "work" improperly.

Can you comment out large portions of your scripts and handlers, and see what happens? If you have to comment everything, then do so. Then start enabling them one by one, and again see what happens.

Craig

[mwieder]

Also... from the Development menu select "Suppress Messages", *then* load your stack.

[mcelvain]

Thank-you all!

Will do.

Would a bad system bus allow a line of script to just die, while the compiler is happily purring away, now with mis-matched calls/responses?

[stam]

My stack has just started renaming its objects with my variables (perhaps Globals) and renaming my variables in scripts as well.

To me it seems more probable there is something in your code renaming objects rather than this being a corruption of some kind...

I would set a breakpoint at a relevant point and then step through the code to see at what point the objects are renamed to the name of your variables.

HTH
Stam

[dunbarx]

Perhaps Stam is suggesting that you do a comprehensive search for "set the name" in the SE?

Craig

[FourthWorld]

Would a bad system bus allow a line of script to just die, while the compiler is happily purring away, now with mis-matched calls/responses?

What is a "bad system bus"?

[mwieder]

Maybe something like this:

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/05/in-19 ... thing.html

[dunbarx]

And I thought Americans were silly.

Craig

[mcelvain]

You guys were right; LC didn't corrupt my stack.

BTW, the concept of "bus" was more than adequately captured in a Beatles' album.

[dunbarx]

BTW, the concept of "bus" was more than adequately captured in a Beatles' album.

And even better from the Firesign Theater.

Craig

[dunbarx]

You guys were right; LC didn't corrupt my stack.

So, er, what was it?

Craig