open me <> open stack "xxx"?

[rozek]

Hello again!

RR is driving me crazy...

Within a stack script handler of a library stack (which has already been registered by "start using"), I tried to open the stack's window using

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open me

because "me" contains a reference to the stack.

Unfortunately, this approach doesn't work. Me contains the correct reference, but it does not work...

If I use the command

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open stack "xxx"

where xxx is the stack's name, everything works fine.

What am I doing wrong?

Do I really have to write

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open stack (the short name of me)

to achieve the desired effect?

In that case: how do I find out when to write a reference itself or "the long|short name|id of" that reference? To me it seems, that I always use the wrong expression(s)...

Thanks in advance for any help![/quote]

[rozek]

Ok, I got it!

The command "open" seems to require a "long name" rather than a normal object reference. This means:

- after "start using" a stack you may refer to it and its contents using normal references, but
- you can't open it with such a reference

Only "open (the long name of me)" works as foreseen.

Programming has never been so easy, yeah!!!