Do not want to go to the cloned card

[mrcoollion]

I want to clone a card (in background) without actually going to that card.
The statement below works fine but after this part of the script the new card is shown and I need to stay on the card within the script the clone is initiated from (a button).

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clone card "Card template" 
set the name of card "Card template" of this stack to thenewcardname // Because it is a clone it does not matter which card is renamed.

Workin in Livecode 8.0

Regards,

Paul

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Read about locking the screen in the dictionary. Now think about setting up a way to identify your source card, perhaps by marking or naming, and throwing in a line that returns to that card after the clone has been created. A shortcut might be that you exploit the fact that the cloned card will immediately follow the source card, but that is lazy.

Craig Newman.

[mrcoollion]

I will try some stuff , I think that lock screen and go back to original card will initiale the 'on opencard' routine which I do not want.
I will let you know.

Thanks Craig.

[dunbarx]

Well then lock messages as well.

This is a great tool to bypass stuff that you may want in some processes, but not in certain others.

Craig.

[Klaus]

Hi mrcoollion,

"lock messages" is the magic word!

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...
lock screen
clone cd X
lock messages
go cd "the previous one"
unlock messages
unlock screen
...

Best

Klaus

[mrcoollion]

Tried the lock screen and although it looks ok the on opencard routine is activated ;-( (which I expected to be).

Is there any other copy command i can use to copy a card and rename it?

gtestvar1 is a global variable available in open card

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on opencard
put "Past Opencard ;-(" into gtestvar1
end opencard

The code in a button in card "AddMenuItems"

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lock screen
   put empty into gtestvar1
   clone card "Card template" // Works but which card to change the name of?
   set the name of card "Card template" of this stack to thenewcardname // Picks the first found but that does not matter. is is a clone anyway :-)
   go card "AddMenuItems"
   unlock screen
   answer gtestvar1 // for test

regards,

Paul

[Klaus]

Hi Paul,

you already gave the answer!

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...
lock screen
put empty into gtestvar1
clone card "Card template" 
## Works but which card to change the name of?

## You already found out that you ARE on the new card at this point! :-)
## So lets use this fact and:
set the name of THIS cd to thenewcardname // Picks the first found but that does not matter. is is a clone anyway :-)
go card "AddMenuItems"
unlock screen
answer gtestvar1
...

Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Both Klaus and I mentiined that you can lock messages (though I beat him by one minute. Hah!)

But you did see that (them) right?

Craig

[mrcoollion]

Thanks for all the advise friends.
The script below works fine and I will use it.

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  lock screen
   clone card "Card template"
   set the name of card "Card template" of this stack to thenewcardname // Picks the first found but that does not matter, it is a clone anyway :-)
   lock messages
   go card "AddMenuItems" // This script is in a button on this card 
   unlock messages
   unlock screen

I did not use the 'set the name of THIS cd to thenewcardname ' because after doing so I almost lost 2 weeks of work when it renamed the card my code was on and I almost removed it. I do auto sync my scripts to another safe place with BitTorrentSync but that is not a backup (in my opinion best free synctool available)! It made me aware of this and now I use 'cobian backup' to make a copy every minute of changed scripts (works great). It has an option to remove empty folders in the advanced section of a task so it actually only backups changed scripts (no performance problems at all, http://www.cobiansoft.com).

Thanks for everything.

Regards,

Paul