How to clone invisible a stack?

[David Bovill]

Nothing - it should work - both for mainstacks and substacks. Just tested
on OSX and it works fine - what platform are you using?

On 29 March 2013 09:30, André Bisseret <andre.bisseret at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Bonjour,
>
> I have a main stack (say mainStack1" of which one substack is a model
> stack, say stack "stackModel"
>
> On an another main stack, I have a button with a mouseUp handler that
> creates a new stack by cloning the model stack.
>
> When I clone invisible stack "stackModel", that create a stack "copy of
> stackModel", as expected.
> I rename it.
> My problem is that I can't do that invisibly: the clone "Copy of
> stackModel" is always visible for a while!
>
> that keeps being so, despite the fact that I lock screen.
>
> Trying to set the visible of stack "stackModel" to false before cloning
> does not help
>
> Below is the involved part of my handler:
> --------------
> lock screen
> ---
> ---
>  set the visible of stack "stackModel" of stack "mainStack1" to false --
> not better
>  clone invisible stack "stackModel" of stack "mainStack1"
>  set the name of it to tNewDoc
> --
> --
> save stack tNewDoc as "bli/bla/blo/tNewDoc
> close stack tNewDoc
> ---------
>
> Any idea on what I am missing?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help
>
> Best regards from Grenoble
>
> André
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