Hi Tom,
First of all, why would you want to copy a group? The good thing about
groups is that you can place them on multiple cards. This means that
you need only one object, or group of objects, which can save you a
lot of memory.
Second, if you do this by script, you could send a special message up
the message hierarchy right before placing the group. If you do this
manually, no special message is sent. After you have placed the group,
the selectedObjectChanged message is sent. This might be of help,
because you could check whether the selectedObject is a group and
whether it is in a list of previously created groups. Another message
that is sent if you choose Place from the menu, is the menuPick
message. I haven't tried whether it is possible to catch this message
before the group is placed.
If you really want to copy and paste a group manually in the IDE and
want to handle a message sent before or after pasting, you could
handle the commandKeyDown message. This even allows you to prevent the
group from being created.
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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On 7 apr 2008, at 17:12, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Is there a message sent when a group has been copied to another
card? The key is the Copying part. I am not creating but rather
copying.
I was thinking of something like the "on NewGroup" message where
after a group is created the engine sends the NewGroup message in
order to act upon the group location, browser tool, etc.
NewGroup does not specify whether it should work with copy.
Tom
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