Duplicate Substack

[J. Landman Gay]

 > On Nov 17, 2003, at 12:19 PM, R. Hillen wrote:
 >
 > I want some slightly different substacks; to save work, I would like
 > to duplicate one substack and to modify it afterwards.
 >
 > How can I do that?

You clone it. After cloning, the variable "it" contains a reference to 
the new object so that you can work with that new object. The clone is 
an independent stack that doesn't "belong" to any mainstack. It's name 
is generic. So next you set its name and mainstack properties (you must 
do these lines immediately, or the "it" variable may not hold the 
reference to the new stack):

     clone stack "mySubstack"
     set the name of it to "myNewClone" -- renames the stack
     set the mainstack of it to "myMainStack" -- makes it a substack

Save the main stack file and you're done.


 >>On 11/17/03 1:51 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:

> I wish this was possible for cards as well as stacks and substacks.

Same thing, basically, only you don't need to assign a mainstack because 
new cards are automatically created in the same stack as the original:

   clone this card
   set the name of it to "myNewCard"

Cloned cards are placed immediately after the original in the stack.

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