UnNesting Nested Groups

[Sarah]

Untested - so try this on a backup.
script a loop in another button that does something like this:

repeat the number of controls in grp ID 1241 times
	select control 1 of grp ID 1241
	cut
	start editing grp "Base controls"
	paste
	stop editing grp "Base controls"
end repeat

Cheers,
Sarah

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 01:55  pm, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I seem to have gotten myself in a fix  I can't find a way out of:
>
> Make a group... lots of controls, name it "base controls"
>
> Fumble a bit with mis-selections and click the "Group" icon on the 
> menu bar inadvertently, maybe twice, and now have in the Application 
> Browser (where the following GRP represents the group Icon)
>
> GRP: Base controls
> GRP:     group id 1239
> GRP:         group ID 1240
> GRP:            group ID 1241
>                        field FirstName
>                        Field Last Name
>                        btn: "Listing"
>                        etc. (some 40+ more controls)
>
>
> Now, these controls were originally in the group "Base Controls" and 
> now they have mysteriously moved to an "interior group" with no name, 
> Since there a lot of data already entered, deleting groups is not an 
> option...  i can click on the group and edit it.. "(Base Controls is 
> selected first) click again and get the next group, click again, get 
> the next group, then click a third time and finally I am selecting 
> individual controls in the group ID 1241...
>
> How can one un-nest this mess and get back to simply:
>
> GRP: Base controls
>  		field FirstName
> 		Field Last Name
> 		btn: "Listing"
> 		etc. (some 40+ more controls)
>
> Now, undoubtedly my ineptitude created this situation, but it seems  
> that somehow the interface shouldn't allow one to get into such a 
> fix... or at least provide an easy way out. If one tries to edit the 
> interior group and paste these back into "Base controls" group... all 
> data on all cards is lost, even though Base Controls is placed on all 
> cards..
>
> Of course one can export all the data, clean up the interface and 
> reimport it... but this has happened before... how to get rid of the 
> redundant groups and retain all data?  Probably something simple I am 
> missing here.
>
>
>
> Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
> Himalayan Academy Publications
> at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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