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Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:53 pm**

What is the best way to get a menubar group from one stack onto another stack without having to reconstruct it from the MenuBuilder?
I can't seem to copy and paste and when I try to do it programatically I get an error message. Here is the script for a button that I think should do it:

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on mouseUp
   if there is not a group "Menubar 1" on card 1 of stack "PM Contents" then
      place group "Menubar 1" of  card 1 of stack "Portfolio Manager" onto card 1 of stack "PM Contents"
   end if
end mouseUp

I get this error message:

button "Button": execution error at line 3 (place: group is not in this stack or is already on this card), char 1

In the Application Browser, I can clearly see MenuBar 1 in the single card of the stack Portfolio Manager. In the stack PM Contents I do NOT see the group. Also in the 'run' mode I see two completely different menus for those stacks.

The following two scripts which check for the presence of those menus both answer with "Yes". Any ideas?

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on mouseUp
   if there is not a group "Menubar 1" on card 1 of stack "PM Contents" then
      answer "Yes"
   end if
end mouseUp

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on mouseUp
   if there is a group "Menubar 1" on card 1 of stack "Portfolio Manager" then
      answer "Yes"
   end if
end mouseUp

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Larry

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:58 am**

lohill,

try this -

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on mouseUp
   if there is not a grp "Menubar 1" on card 1 of stack "PM Contents" then
      copy grp "Menubar 1" of  card 1 of stack "Portfolio Manager" to card 1 of stack "PM Contents"
   end if
end mouseUp

Hope it'd solve your problem.

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:37 pm**

Thanks alemrantareq,

That worked like a charm. Is it safe to say that 'copy - to' is always a better choice than 'place - onto' for situations like this? Are there situations where 'place - onto' is required?

Regards,
Larry

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:04 pm**

Hi Larry,

you can only "place" backgrounds "onto" cards in the same stack, not across stacks!
That's why you need to copy here

Best

Klaus

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