The standalone builder has always needed to close the stacks it builds for reasons pretty deeply ingrained in the code. However this causes a few problems, for example:

• values in script locals become empty
• behaviors are broken when the parent script is on / in a stack which closes

As an attempt to improve this situation, the code that locks messages when closing and opening stacks for standalone builds has been removed. This means that where previously mainstacks would not receive any of the (pre)open* and close* messages (e.g. preOpenStack, openStack, openCard, closeStack etc) during standalone build, they now do.

If this causes problems for your stack, you can exit from the handler if standalone building is in progress:

on closeStack
    if the environment is "development" and \
      there is a stack "revStandaloneProgress" and \
      the mode of stack "revStandaloneProgress" > 0 then
        exit closeStack
    end if
end closeStack

Prior to this release, exponentiation had lower precedence that unary minus. In order to write code that operates as expected in both this release and previous releases, please use parentheses where appropriate.

Using lc-compile tool in LiveCode 9:

-1^2 = -1

Using lc-compile tool in LiveCode 8:

-1^2 = 1