Thanks for the advice Bill - I may use your second suggestion in future but it would require an awful lot of work just now.
Joe --- In [email protected], "Bill Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The gamebox has 2 boards named 'Allied Charts' and 'Japanese > > Charts' - I am trying to add the same info to each board. I > > have already modified the 'Japanese Charts' board. As I want > > to make the same changes to the 'Allied Charts' I was wondering > > if there is any easy way to cut and paste between boards. > > Cyberboard Designer does not seem to allow this but I wondered > > if anyone else had a workaround ? > > Hi, me again. I doubt this is what you are looking for in this case > but I'll mention it for what it is worth. There is one way I have > found to cut-and-paste the actual objects (not bitmap images) on the > board but it is rather extreme. > > If you select the Japanese Charts board in the CBDesign Gamebox > Project window and then right click you will get an option to Clone > Selected Board. Since this creates a brand new board rather than > transferring objects to an existing board, it is only useful in your > case if the differences between the two boards are minimal. > > I've made use of the Clone feature to share objects and layouts > between several boards/charts but it was quite a bit of work. I > first roughed out the different boards/charts to figure out which > shapes and layouts they had in common. Then I drew all of these on a > single dummy template. Then I discarded all my rough drafts and > created each board/chart as a Clone from that one template. > > For each created board/chart, I had to discard the objects that I > didn't want for that particular instance. And I had to carefully > reshape the board while retaining the objects I did wish to keep. In > the end, I had shapes and layouts which were identical for each > board/chart and which were actual objects rather than bitmap images. > > It was an awful lot of work and I'm not at all sure there was any > real benefit of doing things that way. On the plus side, I did learn > a lot about what you can and cannot safely do when reshaping a board. >
