moving images between stacks

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Fri Jul 25 17:24:02 EDT 2003


Edwin,

make sure both images are the same width and height, then:

set the imagedata of img "new" to the imagedata of img "old"

--Chipp

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> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Edwin Gore
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:52 PM
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> Subject: moving images between stacks
> 
> 
> I'm working on my routine to update settings files again, and I 
> have run into a problem.
> 
> The old settings file has 5 images in it, that are later exported 
> out to image files. The user can customize these, so the contents 
> of the image might be the original pasted in images that I put in 
> there, or they might be references to an external file.
> 
> When the new settings file is created, it has the defaults for 
> these images pasted into it as well. What I want to do is take 
> the images from the old settings file, and put them into the 
> iamge file with the same name in the new settings file.
> 
> Both files are stacks. The old file that I am testing with has 
> the image "default" set to a reference to a file on disk.
> 
> I have tried everything I can thing of...
> 
> put image "default" of card 1 of stack "old" \
> into image "default" of card 1 of stack "new"
> 
> Doesn't work, and in fact clears the images, though they are 
> still there, they have no picture in them - they are empty, 
> transparent objects.
> 
> set the imagedata of image "default" of card 1 of \ stack "new" 
> to the imagedata of image "default" of \
> card 1 of stack "old"
> 
> Doesn't work either - the images in the new file are still the 
> default ones.
> 
> I'm at a loss. I know that I could copy/paste/position to 
> bruteforce this, but there must be something more elegant...
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