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I offer the following observation so that someone else may avoid several hours of head scratching :

While trying to write my first large application I have started experimenting with library stacks. Some of my functions load data from disk. For a quick and dirty check of what my code has loaded I added a field "debug" to my library stack/card and added a line of code to write the text into the field. However, when run the function throws an error reporting that the field can not be found.
The reason? The code looks for the field "debug" on the card/stack that invoked the routine not the stack where the code is stored.

I suspect that I have caused the "problem" by only using short names for the field.

Hi Simon,

yes, when starting a command like the one above, Rev will check if the currently active card
of the currently active stack (the defaultstack) does have a field named "debug" and will of course
complain otherwise

So you need to:
1. add a long descriptor (...fld "debug" of cd 1 of stack "xyz")
OR
2. set the defaultstack first to the sack with that field:
...
set the defaultstack to "the one wiht the debug field in it"
put c138Fields into field "debug"
...


Best

Klaus