> The gamebox has 2 boards named 'Allied Charts' and 'Japanese > Charts' - I am trying to add the same info to each board. I > have already modified the 'Japanese Charts' board. As I want > to make the same changes to the 'Allied Charts' I was wondering > if there is any easy way to cut and paste between boards. > Cyberboard Designer does not seem to allow this but I wondered > if anyone else had a workaround ?
Hi, me again. I doubt this is what you are looking for in this case but I'll mention it for what it is worth. There is one way I have found to cut-and-paste the actual objects (not bitmap images) on the board but it is rather extreme. If you select the Japanese Charts board in the CBDesign Gamebox Project window and then right click you will get an option to Clone Selected Board. Since this creates a brand new board rather than transferring objects to an existing board, it is only useful in your case if the differences between the two boards are minimal. I've made use of the Clone feature to share objects and layouts between several boards/charts but it was quite a bit of work. I first roughed out the different boards/charts to figure out which shapes and layouts they had in common. Then I drew all of these on a single dummy template. Then I discarded all my rough drafts and created each board/chart as a Clone from that one template. For each created board/chart, I had to discard the objects that I didn't want for that particular instance. And I had to carefully reshape the board while retaining the objects I did wish to keep. In the end, I had shapes and layouts which were identical for each board/chart and which were actual objects rather than bitmap images. It was an awful lot of work and I'm not at all sure there was any real benefit of doing things that way. On the plus side, I did learn a lot about what you can and cannot safely do when reshaping a board.
