Place group on all cards, after already duplicated

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Wed Feb 18 23:49:20 EST 2004


Or you can do a non grouped object via:

copy object manually

then

repeat with j = 1 to 10
	go card j
	paste
end repeat

I do this sometimes

Tom

On Feb 18, 2004, at 6:39 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:

> Is there a way to do this with a simple, non-grouped object?  I want 
> to add an image to the same place on each card. I can do it  by making 
> it a group of one (select image, then group selected) and then using 
> the script suggested:
>
> repeat with j = 1 to 10
>   place group "this group" onto card j
> end repeat
>
> but I have not been able to do it for a simple image (or other 
> object).  Is there a different command that I can use to place 
> individual objects.
>
> Marian
>
> On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Christopher Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Just wondering if there is a way to place a group on all cards - if 
>> you realized after you've already duplicated and individualized all 
>> cards in a particular stack with an original, but deficient, set of 
>> controls.  kind of like "oops I really should have put a "close" 
>> button in this..
>>
>> Just off the top of my head, adding that extra control to the 
>> originally duplicated group should do it, right?
>>
>> on the other hand, if you wanted it to be a separate group, one might 
>> have to do something like (this is very mocked up)
>>
>> repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards
>>   place group "foo"
>> end repeat
>>
>> I don't particularly want to add it to the original control group, 
>> but I don't want to edit each individual card either. the UI makes 
>> accessing card elements and doing multicard edits or even multicard 
>> deletions difficult unless you write a small script to do it.
>>
>> or maybe I just don't know what's going on!
>>
>> Yours,
>> Chris
>>
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