Copying a group

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Aug 3 10:18:00 EDT 2003


Well, my feeling is that if doing something manually produces a
different result than doing something programmatically, that (IMHO) it's
a bug.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> J. Landman Gay
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:08 AM
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> Subject: Copying a group
> 
> 
> Before I bugzilla this, I want to know if others think it really is a 
> bug, or if it should be considered normal behavior. I can't decide.
> 
> I have a group that consists of several fields. The group has 
> backgroundBehavior set to true. Each card has different text in the 
> fields of the group. The current card of the stack is, say, three.
> 
> In another stack, I issue the command:
> 
>     copy group "myGroup" of stack "Main" to this cd
> 
> I expect to see the contents of card three when the group is copied. 
> Instead I see the contents of card one. The work-around is to 
> go to the 
> Main stack, copy the group, go back to the second stack, and 
> paste. Then 
> I do get the contents of card three.
> 
> The results of the copy command kind of make sense, since I didn't 
> specify what card I wanted, and so I got the first card by default. 
> However, the command:
> 
>     copy group "myGroup" of cd 3 of stack "Main" to this cd
> 
> doesn't work either, I still get the contents of card one.
> 
> Is it a bug or is it normal?
> 
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