[ANSWERED] How do you copy Controls from one Isadora window to another other and preserve the Control ID numbers?

Juriaan

Hi there,

Isadora 3.0.7 (latest stable), Windows 10, Standard edition (not usb)

I was copying some Control elements from one Isadora file to an another Isadora file and it caused all my Control IDs (and I have around 60 UI elements in this patch) to renumber themself and start at Control ID 1..

Personally I dont think is meant to do this right ? When I copy and paste I think that all properties of the Control element should be the same.

jfg

Dear Juriaan,

to avoid this you have to disable "Auto renumber ID conflicts" in the controls menu from the target project.

best

Jean-François

Juriaan

@jfg

Lovely thanks :) Didn't knew about that feature. Still wondering why this is default on and not off ?

Mark as Solved.

Woland

@Juriaan said:

Still wondering why this is default on and not off ?

Because when it's off, if you duplicate/copy+paste Controls within a document because you want more of a particular Control or set of Controls, it doesn't increment the Control IDs of the new Controls. Copying Controls within a document and wanting them to get their own Control IDs is a more common use case than wanting to copy Controls between documents while preserving the Control IDs, which is why it's enabled by default.

@Juriaan said:

Mark as Solved.

Just renamed the thread and moved it to "How To" ;)