By the way, I am noticing that a number of complaints about the IDE involve
copying or creating and destroying lots of objects from one place to another.
I'm curious why this would be necessary, unless you are building some kind of
IDE tool that replicates objects like the tools pallette does.
I just created 2 stacks. In the first, I put a field and a button, then grouped
them. I then typed 2 lines of text into the field, then changed the textFont of
line 1 and 2 to different fonts. I then copied the group from one stack to the
other. The formatting was retained. I did this programmat
I think I ask this every couple of years (and it would be more often, but I
sometimes find the answer in my archives).
As my program copies groups from one stack to another, I am losing field
formatting information.
This time, the offending fields have, iirc, both ArialMt and dingbat text,
probab
