Circularities

[dflachbart]

What are those, and what is causing them ?

I noticed that I get a bunch of widgets in the Circularities folder after re-importing my stvi (the first import works fine). I am using Niel's utility functions, and it looks like that removing the existing menu (with DeleteWidgetTree) is causing it somehow ...

Thanks,
Dirk

[BobPhoenix]

For me it was loops. To get rid of them I put in unlinked widgets that had names like "ReplaceLoop1", "ReplaceLoop2" etc. and then used NIELM's Link routines to replace them with the appropriate linked widget and location. But YMMV.

BobP.

[nielm]

They are loops that have no parent outside the loop, so they become circular references...

They can do no harm (other than make the STV bigger) because they are never referenced...

They often appear after an import because my delete widget tree code cannot handle them - it dereferences the loop from any parents in the tree it is deleting, but it cannot determine whether the starting widget of a loop is referenced only be widgets within the loop, so it does not delete it.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by nielm

They are loops that have no parent outside the loop, so they become circular references...

They can do no harm (other than make the STV bigger) because they are never referenced...

Yeah, my code contains indeed loops... Well, I have the tree deletion code now working with loops, and the circular refs went away. Thanks !

Dirk