On 10/28/11 1:28 PM, edward cawley wrote:
I'll try to make it clearer what I'm trying to do. I have some HyperCard stacks which have a number of cards with graphics on them. I opened them in LiveCode with no problem. The graphic images were converted with no problem and are in the "image library" (accessed through the development menu item)of the converted stack. The script of the converted stack needs a lot of modification so I started a new stack and have scripted several cards to serve as templates. I would like to transfer the "image library" of the old (Hyper Card) stack to the new LiveCode stack so I can reference the images into the cards of the new stack, instead of moving the images from the old stack card by card. They have already been converted from the HyperCard resource fork. I other words I would like to import the old "image library" into the new stack, but where do I find the "image library" in the converted HyperCard stack or how do I export the old "image library" into the new stack from the old converted stack. I hope that is a little clearer.
The library you see in "This Stack" is not a real library. It is generated on the fly for every stack you open, and does not exist on disk anywhere as far as I know. What you are seeing is a dynamic compilation that disappears when you close the stack. That means there is nothing to copy.
You could write a little handler that loops through the cards, and then loops through all the images, copying them to the new stack. Each HC card will have no more than 2 images; there will be a background image or a card image, or neither, or both. Knowing that in advance will make it easy to script because you know exactly what to look for. Check for the existence of background image 1, and if it exists, copy it. Do the same for card image 1.
If you have a lot of cards and stacks, I don't think I'd do what you're doing though. Instead, I'd delete all the scripts in a copy of the stack, leaving all the objects and images intact. Then I'd rescript the clone.
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