Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: It seems like it would be easier to clone a stack, then reset everything in it, or just keep a copy of a virgin stack around. You would have to update it every time you made any changes to the original though. That's been my experience as well. The stack file format is so

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right. It seems like it would be easier to clone a stack, then reset everything in it, or just keep a copy of a virgin stack around. You would have to update it every time you made any changes to the original though. Bob On Dec 28, 2011, at 1:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > A while ago I ex

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-28 Thread stephen barncard
well if one were setting all of the properties of a stack, they'd have to be set to another stack. set the properties of stack "b" to the properties of stack "a" Easier to copy the stack.Can all the properties be placed into a variable? I think some props will be left out by design, otherwi

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I meant all at once as in set the properties of this stack to theSavedProperties Bob On Dec 28, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob- > > Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 8:31:54 AM, you wrote: > >> Putting the standard properties back is a bit trickier though. I >> don't think you can se

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 8:31:54 AM, you wrote: > Putting the standard properties back is a bit trickier though. I > don't think you can set the properties of a stack. Most of them you can. Some are read-only. If you wrap your code below in a try-catch construct you can avoid the error

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Get the customProperties of a stack. It is an array. Get the properties of a stack. It is (almost) all of the properties of the stack as an array. at this point the easiest thing to do to save them as a file on disk is to arrayEncode() them and write them to a low level file. Not sure if you nee

Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-28 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Hi All, Does anyone know of a sample stack demonstrating how to pull all of the properties and custom properties out of a stack, putting them into a file, and then demonstrating how to put the file of data back into the stack (or into another copy or clone of the original stack)? Thanks, - Bo