2.6 Dreamcard stacks won't launch when converted to 2.7 standalones

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Secondly, after selecting an object the menu item
> should read 'Copy Object',
> and once copied, 'Paste Object'. I just started both
> 2.6.x (I don't have
> DreamCard) and 2.7.x IDEs up and if I opened a stack
> in 2.6 and copied an
> object, when I then selected the 2.7.x IDE the menu
> item didn't say Paste
> Object, so it didn't work. I guess you need both
> stacks open in one IDE
> before it will work.
> 

In my experience, you cannot copy controls from one
instance of the IDE to another (at least not on Win2K)
My guess is that the engine keeps its own internal
clipboard for copy+paste of controls.

When you copy a control in Rev 2.6, and use the
message box to execute the following:
  answer the clipboard
then you'll see 'objects'.
Switch over to Rev 2.7, and execute the same command.
You'll get 'empty'.

Personally, I wish we could have more control over the
clipboard, and would be allowed to set our own
clipboardData[] types. The same for dragData[] - it
would make a drawing app a lot easier to implement.
Richard Gasking and I exchanged some ideas on this
over at RevConWest, and the best workaround that came
up, was to serialize our data in XML format, and just
transfer it as text.

Ah well, probably more than you ever wanted to know
about this topic ;-)

Jan Schenkel.

Quartam Reports for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>

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