"Save" in a standalone application

[Klaus]

Hi Larry,

hm, too funky, running out of ideas...

Please check if the sourcestack is really available where we think it is:

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## Stack to copy:
put specialfolderpath("resources") & "/Giving_Main.livecode" into tSourceStack
answer (there is a file tSourceStack)
## Should read -> TRUE
...

[jacque]

The error "file is not a stack" usually means it was saved in a format that LC can't read. This can happen if the stack was saved in a version of LC that is newer than the LC version trying to open it.

Did you save the source stack using the same version you used to build the standalone?

[lohill]

Many thanks Klaus,

That revealed the culprit. My source stack file was named "Giving Main.livecode" and not "Giving_Main.livecode". I hate it when I do that to myself and I am glad you did not run out of ideas.

Larry

[Klaus]

Great you found it!

Well, that was in fact my last idea on this issue.

[bogs]

The error "file is not a stack" usually means it was saved in a format that LC can't read. This can happen if the stack was saved in a version of LC that is newer than the LC version trying to open it.

Just to clarify that, in the 6.x series and previous, if you try to open a stack that was saved in a newer format, you will see the message "file is not a stack".

In 7.x and later, the message will read "There was a problem opening that stack: stack was produced by a newer version"