Application Browser problem?
Scott Morrow
scott at elementarysoftware.com
Sat Jan 3 09:05:56 EST 2009
Hello Kurt,
Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question about using the
Application Browser... but can suggest an alternative. Using the
Message Box (or a button script) you may control such copy and paste
actions.
go card 2 of stack "thisStack" -- or in the Application Browser you
could go to card 2 by double clicking on it
copy card 7 of stack "thatStack" to stack "thisStack" -- will paste
right after the current card in stack "thisStack"
Scott Morrow
Elementary Software
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email scott at elementarysoftware.com
On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
> I'm helping my 12-year-old daughter learn to program with RunRev,
> and I couldn't really figure this one out:
>
> Could someone point me to a reference on how to move cards reliably
> between stacks in the Application Browser?
> I find I can't predict exactly how it will work, between "selecting"
> the card in the A.B. using the contextual menu (right-click),
> pressing COMMAND-C to copy (or menu Edit-->Copy Card), and then
> choosing a stack in which to paste the clipboard-held card. (It
> seems that the Edit menu then offers "Paste Objects", rather than
> "Paste Card" as one might expect.) At this point,
> it seems that unless I either double-click on the destination stack
> in the A.B., or click in the destination stack's window, it is NOT
> selected for the paste function, **even though** I might highlight
> the desired destination stack by single-clicking it in the A.B..
>
> So, I can be in a position of having a card on the clipboard, ready
> for pasting, and I highlight a card of the destination stack (all of
> it's current objects are displayed), and yet, since I have not
> actually **definitively** selected my destination stack, if I paste
> my card it will be pasted back into the source stack.
>
>
> Sorry if this is detailed in the help files, and I'm just missing it.
>
> Also: It seems there might be a refresh problem where a newly pasted
> card shows up in the stack window while the A.B. still shows the
> "pre-paste" card highlighted and no pasted card? (After collapsing
> the destination stack in the A.B. and re-displaying it, it shows up
> correctly with the newly-pasted card.)
>
> Thanks, Kurt
>
> Rev 3.0.0, Build 750, Mac OX 10.5.6
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