Copying a group

[Pierre Sahores]

Ken Ray wrote:
> Well, my feeling is that if doing something manually produces a
> different result than doing something programmatically, that (IMHO) it's
> a bug.
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
>>[mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
>>J. Landman Gay
>>Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:08 AM
>>To: Revolution Mailing List
>>Subject: Copying a group
>>
>>
>>Before I bugzilla this, I want to know if others think it really is a 
>>bug, or if it should be considered normal behavior. I can't decide.
>>
>>I have a group that consists of several fields. The group has 
>>backgroundBehavior set to true. Each card has different text in the 
>>fields of the group. The current card of the stack is, say, three.
>>
>>In another stack, I issue the command:
>>
>>    copy group "myGroup" of stack "Main" to this cd
>>
>>I expect to see the contents of card three when the group is copied. 
>>Instead I see the contents of card one. The work-around is to 
>>go to the 
>>Main stack, copy the group, go back to the second stack, and 
>>paste. Then 
>>I do get the contents of card three.
>>
>>The results of the copy command kind of make sense, since I didn't 
>>specify what card I wanted, and so I got the first card by default. 
>>However, the command:
>>
>>    copy group "myGroup" of cd 3 of stack "Main" to this cd
>>
>>doesn't work either, I still get the contents of card one.
>>
>>Is it a bug or is it normal?
>>
>>-- 
>>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Hi There,

It's probably running in this way :

The group "mygroup" (set with backgroundbehavior to true, for all over 
the stack) don't lies on card 3 but on card 1 and is shared with each 
cards of the stack --> the MC engine find an kind of object pointer, aka 
an alias, for group "mygroup" of cd 3 and take and copy the original 
needed object for where it lies in the stack : on card one...

If yes, it's not a bug but a feature and the work-around is to copy, in 
two times, the group object first and, the contents of what appears in 
this group object on card 3.

Hope this help ;-)

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Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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