Moving objects between cards

[glenn9]

I'm conscious that I've been fairly quiet on the forum over the last few months but I have been busy livecoding and tinkering with my apps in the background...

The problem that I can't seem to solve at the moment is that I'm wanting to programatically move a group from one card to a different a different card.

Assuming the Group is originally in card"A", I've tried various permutations of:

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put group"testGroup" into card"B" 

but these of course don't work!

Grateful for any hints!

Many thanks,

Regards,

Glenn

[Klaus]

Hi Glenn,

almost!
If you are on the card with your group, you can:

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place grp "testGroup" ONTO cd "B"
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If you are on card "B" then this will throw an error -> can't find object
But this will do in that case:

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place bg "testGroup" ONTO cd "B"
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put the num of grps -> will return the number of all groups on the current card
put the num of bgs -> will return the number of all groups in the current stack

So groups are counted relative to the card, backgrounds relative to the stack.

The opposite (remove a group) goes this way:

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remove grp "testGroup" from cd "B"
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Best

Klaus

[glenn9]

Many thanks Klaus, that was a great help.

Regards,

Glenn

[dunbarx]

What Klaus said.

You can also use the "copy" command to the same effect:

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copy group "yourGroup" to card "otherCard"

Craig

[Klaus]

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You can also use the "copy" command to the same effect:

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copy group "yourGroup" to card "otherCard"

Not really, Craig!

In that case you end with two identical groups in your stack.
PLACEing will place the SAME group onto another card.

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

Certainly. I thought that the OP wanted a copy of the group somewhere else.

@Glenn9. Do you see what Klaus pointed out? If you "place" a group onto another card in the same stack, then that group is an instance of a single group shared among all the cards it resides on. Changing it in one place will change it in all places.

If you "copy" that group, you essentially make a new exact copy, but one that does not share the structure of the original, nor does it "see" any changes to that original. Since you cannot "place" a group onto a different stack, that is how one would proceed if you wanted to make a copy in another stack.

Craig