I have "not a clue", but it looks like no-one else had any good ideas, so instead I'll make a couple of suggestions :-)

Try either of the following and see if it tells you anything.

command sivasiva_Share
   put sConfigA["shareControl"] into tShareControl
   put the name of the last control
   copy tShareControl to this card # it works! buttons fire, behavior triggers 
Wow
   put the name of the last control
end sivasiva_Share

or

command sivasiva_Share
   put sConfigA["shareControl"] into tShareControl
   put the number of controls
   copy tShareControl to this card # it works! buttons fire, behavior triggers 
Wow
   put the number of controls
end sivasiva_Share

If those don't help - try

command sivasiva_Share
   put sConfigA["shareControl"] into tShareControl
   put exists(group "shareUI") # false
   copy tShareControl to this card # it works! buttons fire, behavior triggers 
Wow
   wait for 0 millisecs with messages   -- if this is safe in your environment 
!!
   put exists(group "shareUI") #  ???
end sivasiva_Share

Alex.

On 07/07/2017 20:18, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote:
I doing this thing of saving a custom control in the loader stack on card 
4..but it's behavior is text only stack on external to the stack

group "shareUI""

then I have a new init handler that adds the long id's of these controls

global sConfigA

to then it is super easy to do this anywhere anytime, on other stacks and 
modules (loader stack is always present in memory and these controls are not 
overloaded with images so they don't take up a lot of RAM in the app package)

copy sConfigA["shareContro"] to this card

the control copies and appears and it has a behavior that fires,

so far this is all very cool "brilliant" in fact…  a new world of view 
object/classes opens up! wow..

but after the copy is done, the engine still doesn't acknowledge that the grp 
exists

command sivasiva_Share
          put sConfigA["shareControl"] into tShareControl
put exists(group "shareUI") # false
copy tShareControl to this card # it works! buttons fire, behavior triggers Wow
put exists(group "shareUI") #  oops: still returns false
end sivasiva_Share

so there is no way to prevent the instantiation of multiple copies of the 
custom control…

I *could* copy this particular control to *all* stack on preopenstack and then assume it 
is present, but there are caveats there… and I want to stay on this path of dynamic 
instantiation of view "classes" as needed. It has so much potential.  I could 
also do the things of setting flags… but this adds complexity to what should be simple

if not [some control exists]
   create it by copying the template
else
assume its already there, ready to go
end if



So we *do* need to know if the control actually copied and is now present on 
the card, albeit in an unsaved state.

BR
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