clone bug, or misleading docs?

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Fri Oct 15 10:15:00 EDT 2004


I'm not sure if this is a Rev bug or a Documentation bug, so I thought 
I'd ask for a clarification of how others interpret this before I 
bugzilla the issue.

According to the 2.5 docs for the "clone" command, using clone on a 
control (in my case, an image object), the copy is placed on the 
"current card."

When I attempt to clone my image object, I use the following statements:

     set the defaultStack to the topStack
     clone image "field-box.png" of stack "Report Editor"

Note that the topStack is *not* stack "Report Editor", since stack 
"Report Editor" is a palette.  The current card will now be the (only) 
card of the topStack, correct?  But the cloned image object ends up on 
the (only) card of stack "Report Editor", *not* on the current card.

What should happen here:

1. Are the docs correct -- should the copy be placed in the topStack?
2. Should the copy be placed on the card that the original is on, in 
the same stack as the original -- bad docs?
3. Should the copy be placed on the current card of the same stack as 
the original -- misleading docs?


I would like to see #1 as the answer myself, but I suspect that #3 is 
what the docs are trying to imply.  Should this be bugzilla'd then as a 
request to fix the docs (#3), to fix the engine (#1), or as a feature 
request (#1)?  I'm "confused" here.

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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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