Copying cards from one stack to another

[Paul Dupuis]

Of course, right after posting this, I discovered that, in the Project 
Browser, you can drag and drop cards from one stack to another and then 
saving actually saves the changes. Works in LC951rc1 and 960dp1

Still not sure why copy isn't working OR why you can not use Edit > Copy 
and Edit >Paste, but at leats I can move on with my work. I just do not 
have time to further debug the IDE/engine.


On 12/10/2019 4:33 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> Holy Moly Batman!
>
> I was in LC9.5.1rc1 and needed to copy some cards from the substack of 
> one mainstack stack to the substack of another main stack. I was 
> surprised to see there appears to be not GUI IDE option to copy a card 
> form one stack to another, not via the clipboard or by any means I can 
> figure out.
>
> Thinking this was a bug, I whipped up a couple 3 card test stacks A 
> and B and started going back in LC version ony to find that as far 
> back as I have, LC 6.7.11, you still can not copy a card from one 
> stack to another via the IDE!
>
> The only way appears to be via the 'copy <card> to <stack>' script 
> command, except, when use the copy command in the message boc in 
> LC9.5.1rc1 to copy a card, the card appears in the tartget stack (if I 
> have the stack open and visible). The list of cards in the Project 
> Browser is not updated, even if I close the Project Browser and reopen 
> it AND, even though the target stack shows a * in the title bar to 
> indicate it has unsaved changes - the copied cards - saving the target 
> stack and/or its mains tack does NOT save the changes. When * does not 
> go away from the titlebar and when reopened, the copied cards are not 
> present. The stack do NOT have 'cantModify' set to true.
>
> I can not believe something as basic as copying a card can not be done 
> via the IDE interface or that the copy command seems broken in 9.5.1rc1.
>
> What the heck am I doing wrong?!?
>
>
>
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