Copy between patches lost in V4

[Gaspar]

Hi there,

I guess I'm not alone in the "recycling patch bits" when creating new ones.

On Isadora 3 I could open two instances and copy parts of older patches into my new ones, or even copy whole scenes. At least in my case I'm unable to do so on Isadora 4. I'm running Isadora on two different systems: One on windows 10 and the other on windows 11. None of them allow copying between patches.

I would love to have this feature back.

Thanks

[mark_m]

@gaspar

I am able to copy and paste between open patches in Isadora 4 in both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

I can copy and paste a selection of actors, or complete scenes, between two open Isadora files.

I wonder why I can and why you can't... I am using Isadora 4.1.3 

[Woland]

We didn't make any changes to this as far as I am aware that would affect the ability to copy and paste between two patches that are open in the same version of Isadora. The closest thing I can find to a change is from the release notes of Isadora 4.0.0 that says:

"NEW: Run Multiple Instances of Isadora on Windows
You can now run multiple instances of Isadora on Windows! (This was already possible on macOS.)"

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@gaspar said:

On Isadora 3 I could open two instances and copy parts of older patches into my new ones, or even copy whole scenes. At least in my case I'm unable to do so on Isadora 4. I'm running Isadora on two different systems: One on windows 10 and the other on windows 11. None of them allow copying between patches.

Try opening two files within the same instance.

Also, to copy between two instances of Isadora, they'd have to be the same version of Isadora. (So if one instance is Isadora 4.0.0 and one instance is 4.1.3 that won't work, but both being Isadora 4.0.0 or both being 4.1.3 would work.)