Clone VOWindows in X#

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ArneOrtlinghaus
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Clone VOWindows in X#

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Nearly always we create new VO-Windows in VO in the following manner:
- We open the Windows Editor
- We click "Open..."
- We select one of the existing dialog windows of the DLL
- We click "Clone"
- We have a new window with all of our standard settings in a correct manner as we need it (Exact size of tab window, correct settings as inherit from, some controls to copy)

Is there a similar possibility in X#?
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Hi Arne,

There isn't one build in way to do it now, but will add a feature request. For now, there are two ways to do it in alternative ways:

1. Select All and copy/paste all controls from source to destination window
2. Create a new window, close it, then open the .xsfrm files for the source and destination window and again copy/paste the contents (keeping the name of the new window intact of course!)
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Hi Chris,
please add this feature request also for XIDE (both the VO Window Editor and the Windows Forms Editor).
Currently I'm copying this by hand. In VO, I really newer start with a window from scratch - I start always from a similar one, even if I need only to keep the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons.
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Hi Wolfgang,

OK, will do that, too!
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Thank you very much!
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Post by Meinhard »

Hi Chris!

Wouldn't it be better to support VS export template mechanism? I tried it but seems not to be working at the moment. This way we could have different kinds of templates without the need to do all this copy & paste stuff.

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Hi Wolfgang!

Interesting idea...not sure myself if that's possible for the VOWED, as I have no idea how this feature works, will let Robert give his input on that.
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