copying grps

[Stephen Messimer]

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 05:03 AM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> -- Seems to work for me, however, it's a little baffling why it works. 
>  
> When one copies a group, when will all the properties of it's
> subgroups, controls, etc. get copied along with it, and when won't
> they?

Hi Alex,

I work a lot with groups.  I don't seem to have any problems with 
copied grps retaining the properties I stipulate.  In my experience 
with this I have found that Rev will always copy grps faithfully and  
this includes any buttons, fields and nested grps. The problem arises 
when you try to get their scripts to work properly. When you copy a grp 
all the objects  in the grp get new IDs.  If you have referenced the 
ids in your scripts they aren't going to work (because they will have 
changed).  I have found that if I name all the objects in a group ( at 
least those that are going to be referred to in scripts) that 
everything works out fine.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Steve

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