By the way, I am noticing that a number of complaints about the IDE involve
copying or creating and destroying lots of objects from one place to another.
I'm curious why this would be necessary, unless you are building some kind of
IDE tool that replicates objects like the tools pallette does.
This seems to me to hearken back to the Hypercard method where stacks were
optimized for this sort of thing, and cards and fields were considered a kind
of storage object in leiu of a database for the information to be retrieved and
updated.
While I am sure you have a reason for your methodology, it may be better to
simply have a script which creates new objects, then sets the appropriate
properties of the objects to their counterparts. Also, if you are storing data
in the above described manner, it may be a good time to cut over to using a
database, even a simple one to store your data. If text formatting is an issue,
you can get the htmltext of a field and store that in a blob column.
In fact that might be a good idea for a plugin: A library of common objects
stored and retrieved for recreation in an sqLite database.
Bob S
> On May 29, 2018, at 09:35 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I just created 2 stacks. In the first, I put a field and a button, then
> grouped them. I then typed 2 lines of text into the field, then changed the
> textFont of line 1 and 2 to different fonts. I then copied the group from one
> stack to the other. The formatting was retained. I did this programmatically
> and using the menu.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On May 22, 2018, at 15:43 , Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think I ask this every couple of years (and it would be more often, but I
>> sometimes find the answer in my archives).
>>
>> As my program copies groups from one stack to another, I am losing field
>> formatting information.
>>
>> This time, the offending fields have, iirc, both ArialMt and dingbat text,
>> probably both in different heights.
>>
>> It appears that upon copy, I have a font with serifs, and the size changes.
>>
>> The sharedText of the field is set to true.
>>
>> I vaguely recall that the reis a field property that isn't in the inspector
>> that needs to be set, but I'm baffled at the moment :(
>>
>>
>>
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