copy/paste objects between experiments in eprime 2?

[liwenna]

Hey David,

That is a very long and detailed response (twice!) and thank you for
that. It shows your professional faultfinder status ;)

Unfortunately I see a lot of options in there that I did try and that
gave absolutely none results at all. At best the program seems to get
confused and will not even show newly added (not copy pasted from
another experiment) objects anymore. Closing and reopening the file
solves that but doesn't bring forth the presumably copy-pasted object.
I also do have many recollections of e-prime crashing completely when
trying to move objects between experiments (drag&drop style) (don't
know why I try that every so often).

I get your message about contacting pst support... I might on
monday... I find that I feel rather meek about this issue.... *shrugs*
copy pasting objects between e-studio files just sounded to good to be
true anyways....

Which is probably why I didn't delve into this untill today even
thought I am using e-prime 2 for 9 months now ^.^

Thanks again for your elaborate response thought. Did you do all that
today or did you happen to have this little research ready?

Greet,

liw

On Nov 5, 5:47 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> liwenna,
>
> I already replied to your post at the PST Forum, but would like to
> also post this here:
>
> Sigh. So just now I took a look at this myself. For the record, I ran
> these tests using EP 2.0.8.22 under Vista (I do not, repeat, do not
> run subjects under Vista, only program development).
>
> We need to pay attention to the source of the copy, the destination
> of the paste, the method of copy/paste, and the occurrence of name
> conflicts during the paste, as follows:
>
> Source Copy: Structure, Design (e.g., Procedure), Browser
> Destination Paste: Structure, Design (e.g., Procedure), Browser
> Method: Drag & Drop, Context (right-click) menu, Edit menu
> Name Coflict: absent or present
>
> This gives us 54 cases (not counting all the Paste Conflict
> possibilities) which PST engineers should have tested for themselves,
> but as usual I will step into the gap and do this for them (or have
> they already reported this in a KB that I missed?) (yes, I seriously
> am a professional faultfinder, every organization should get one).
> But we may simplify this a little, as follows:
>
> - Drag & Drop works from Structure, Design, and Browser, but only to
> the Design window of the destination.
> - Both Edit > Copy and Context menu > Copy work from Structure and
> Browser windows; Copy is grayed out in the Design window.
> - Both Edit > Paste and Context menu > Paste work in the Structure,
> Design, and Browser windows, as long as there is no name conflict.
> (To paste to the Structure window, you must have the Unreferenced
> E-Objects selected.)
> - If an object with the same name already exists in the destination,
> you will get the Paste Conflict dialog. And here is where the real
> fun begins...
>      - If you use Context menu > Paste in the Structure window and
> get a Paste Conflict, you also get a little checkbox off to the side
> that says "Default", and the dialog does not respond to any entries;
> furthermore, you cannot switch to any other window on the computer
> until that dialog is dismissed. You can only press Esc to dismiss the dialog.
>      - Thereafter, further attempts to paste to the Structure or
> Browser windows will fail until you exit & restart E-Studio. You can
> still paste to the Design window, but you will get a Paste Conflict
> dialog even though the earlier paste failed (and even if that used a
> unique object name).
>
> I'm sure I missed something, but you get the idea.
>
> (Aside to Brandon: This is an example of the sort of documentation I
> would like to see PST provide for us, instead of me puzzling all this
> out for myself.)
>
> OK, now somebody has to post this to Web Support to get their
> attention, and the more of us who do that the better.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> At 11/5/2009 10:01 AM Thursday, you wrote:
>
> >So.. advertised as a feature of e-prime 2.0 I somehow can't copy/paste
> >objects between e-studio files...
> >Is anyone else having this 'problem' and (more importantly) did anyone
> >manage to fix it if they had?
>
> >I also posted on the PST forum but I'd like to hear from people here
> >too.
>
> >Best,
>
> >liw
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