paste

[Peter Haworth]

Good idea on the try/catch Marty, I will add that to my code.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Marty Knapp <martyknappster at gmail.com>wrote:

> It makes me a little nervous too! I wrap my paste code into a try/catch
> statement so that if anything goes wrong, I can exit the edit group mode so
> my users are left in limbo. I haven't had a problem yet but I wish there
> was a way around this.
>
> Jacque, could you explain more about what you're doing in this regard?
>
> Marty
>
>> Thanks Chris and Marty.  I tried that and it seems to work fine.  I'm
>> mildly worried about doing it that way only because I've had issue in the
>> past while in group edit mode but that was while manually editing groups,
>> not doing it by script.
>>
>> Pete
>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at icloud.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  I agree with Marty. Try “start editing group” before doing your paste. I
>>> believe you can even lock the screen before doing this if desired.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris Sheffield
>>> Read Naturally, Inc.
>>> www.readnaturally.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  A while back, there was a discussion on how to store an control
>>>>
>>> definition
>>>
>>>> in a custom property and create the control from the custom property by
>>>> copying and pasting the control into and out of the custom property.
>>>>
>>>> I have all that working fine but I need the pasted control to end up in
>>>> a
>>>> group and the paste command doesn't have an option to paste into a group
>>>>
>>> (
>>>
>>>> that might be a nice enhancement).  Currently I paste the control onto
>>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>>> card, copy it into the group then delete the pasted control.  That works
>>>>
>>> OK
>>>
>>>> but wondering if there's a more direct way to do it.
>>>>
>>>> Pete
>>>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>
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