Copying Panel Layout

[Guardian17]

I made a panel with many sub-views in my main application, but now decided that it would be best to make this panel a separate layout and then load that new layout into new panels as needed in a CustomListView.

Is there a way to copy a panel (with all of its child views) into a separate project? I tried highlighting the one panel in my main application Abstract Designer Window, hitting CTRL-C to copy it, then opening a new project and pasting the panel into the new Abstract Designer Window, but that didn't work.

 

[mc73]

What I do in cases like this, is to save the old layout as a new one (save as...) and then remove the unwanted views. For example, in your case, I would save the old layout, then from the new layout I would remove everything except from the panel you want (and of course all its child views). Then, in the old layout, I would remove the panel I kept in the new one.

 

[Guardian17]

Thanks

Thanks, MC73. I'll try that method, though it would be nice to just Copy to the Clipboard and then Paste somewhere else.

 

[BlueVision]

I ran into the same problem. I created a panel with a lot of childviews, would like to copy it now into another layout (bal-file) of the same application. Is there really no other way? The previous solution is ok if you start with a new layout. But if you want to merge it into an existing and complex layout, it is hard to make it look the same like the original when doing it all by hand.