Is a widget not an object?

[marksmithhfx]

LC is complaining and won't allow me to write...

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copy widget "first" from cd "Home" to this cd

Any other approach to copying a widget from 1 cd to another?

Thanks
Mark

[Klaus]

Hi Mark,

this works:

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copy widget "first" OF cd "Home" to this cd

Probably because of the exact indentifier -> widget "first" of cd "Home"

Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Mark.

What Klaus said. But it is important to "parse" what you thought was the correct syntax in the first place. When you tried to identify the source object and its current location, you used "from". If you think about it, that would not make LC particularly happy. But:

copy widget "first" OF cd 1

Identifies the target object and its location properly and fully. To substitute "from" for "of" is jumping the gun, mixing a description of the location of that target with the desire to set up a source/destination construct.

One at a time is the answer here. The "to this cd" is all that is needed to specify the destination, and it is a separate clause.

Craig

[marksmithhfx]

Thanks guys!! Probably me just getting into the "natural" language thing a bit too much and forgetting, yes, LC does have its own particular brand of English.