I think this is working exactly as intended. If you were working in an object oriented application, and you made an instance of a field object, you wouldn't want the contents of the field to ALSO be instanced. Data should by nature be separate from the form objects that display them. Hypercard confused us a bit because the card with all it's objects was both the record AND the form. A very odd thing if you think about it. But with Revolution, as I have said before, I think cards should really be used as forms, and the persistent data should be stored elsewhere.
Try making your field a label field. I bet the content copies fine. Bob On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Alex Shaw wrote: > Hi > > Having a annoying problem with copying a field from a (specific) stack. > > See below for basic test stack with a single field with some content.. > http://www.harryscollar.com/teststack.rev > > This unusual stack was initially created via code, stripped back of unneeded > controls and saved. > > When I load this stack into the IDE, create a new stack and run the following > command at the message box.. > copy fld 1 of card 1 of stack "teststack" to card 1 of stack "Untitled 1" > > .. I get a blank field on the new stack! > > Yet when I copy and paste the field onto another new stack and try copying, > it works and copies the contents too. It also works if I manually recreate a > test stack with another test field. > > Very strange because any new field created on "teststack.rev" will now copy > over to any other stacks with empty contents. > > I've checked relevant properties but nothing seems out of place. > > Argh! Starting to pull out my hair over this problem. > > regards > alex > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
