More newbie problems

[Bob Hutchison]

Hi Chipp,

On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:38 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Sure, it's easy to make a mainstack a substack of another.
>
> Go to your stack property inspector of the main stack you wish to  
> make a substack of another. Make sure you're at the 'Basic  
> Properties' section.
>
> There's a option button named 'mainStack'. Just click on it and  
> select the new mainstack you want for this stack and it's done for  
> you.

I've done this at least a dozen times now. I can set the mainstack  
option button to the other mainstack. If I save, it reverts back.  
Change the mainstack again, click on the other mainstack then back on  
the one I just changed and it reverts back. Basically, I can't get  
the change in mainstack to stick.

Actually, I just tried it a couple of more times. Thought I'd see  
what the application browser might tell me. It seems that I had an  
empty substack defined on the mainstack I was trying to move. Once I  
got rid of that, this worked.

OK, I'm set now. Thanks.

>
> See below for other answers.

Thanks, I'm going to have to get used to this running of scripts to  
modify things.

Cheers,
Bob

>
> best,
> Chipp
>
> Bob Hutchison wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Having a blast with RunRev... in two ways at least: lots of fun,  
>> and  shooting myself in the foot
>> So I made a main stack and got it working quite nicely. I've  
>> grown  attached to it even.
>> Now I am coming to realise that this was something of a mistake.  
>> I  should have made a dummy stack as the main stack and done my  
>> work in  a substack. Next time for sure.
>> So I read in the documentation "Changing a stack's mainStack  
>> property  moves it into the same file as the specified main stack.  
>> The stack  becomes a substack of the specified mainStack."
>> Unless I'm doing something wrong -- and this is a distinct   
>> possibility -- then this isn't precisely correct. This doesn't do   
>> much when the stack you are trying to change the mainStack  
>> property  of is itself a main stack. In fact it doesn't seem to do  
>> anything.
>> So, barring some error in what I'm trying to do, is there some  
>> other  way to do this? I can't quite find answers in the  
>> documentation.
>> Can you demote a main stack?
>> Can you copy a main stack to a substack?
>> Can you move a card from one stack to another?
>
> copy card 1 of stack "fred" to stack "sam"
>> Can you duplicate stacks?
>
> clone stack "fred"
>> Can you duplicate cards?
>
> clone card "myCard" of stack "fred"
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
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