storing a group as a customProperty

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Mar 22 11:54:48 EDT 2009


Hi Peter,

You can store the group in a stack and store the stack file in a  
custom property. When you need the group, go stack (the  
cGroupInCustomProp of this cd), copy the group and delete the stack  
when done.

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On 22 mrt 2009, at 16:49, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> Is there a way to store a background group of buttons as a  
> customProperty of a stack? I am trying to cover the possibility (in  
> a utility) that a user in the IDE might do a "select all" and delete  
> all controls on a card, and I want to ensure that I can easily place  
> the deleted buttons back on the card again as a background group. If  
> there's a way to store the group as a customProp that would be the  
> easiest way of preserving it -- then I could just retrieve the group  
> and place it again.
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com




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