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-- name: CopyStruct
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on hideObjects
  hide cd fld "Example Info"
end hideObjects

on showObjects
  show cd fld "Example Info"
end showObjects


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CopyStruct - A very strange XFCN that will probably be useful to a very select few.

Syntax :CopyStruct(sourcePath, destPath, <"noDialog:"errorGlobal>)
SOURCEPATH: the path to be copied from (can be a drive/folder/file)
DESTPATH: the path to be copied to (can be a drive/folder/file)

This XFCN copies the "look" of the drive/path in sourcePath onto the files/folders in destinationPath.  Only files/folders with the same name have their structures copied.  For folders:  its window coordinates, view, scroll, color, location (on the desktop or in the window) are all duplicated.  For files:  the location, color, and comments are copied.  If the paths specify drives/folders all files and folders within the paths are used.

This XFCN is most useful when you wish to make one drive "look" identical (or almost identical) to another.  We use it to make sure one version of our CD looks similar to past versions.  It saves time since after use of copyStruct only new files/folders need to be moved around instead of the entire drive.  We have used it successfully on drives as large as 600MB and 13,000 files.

It is also great for those of us who are anal retentive about our desktops and spend hours getting windows to line up!  Soon to come:  a version to save this data into a file so that you can undo your considerate friend's damage to your orderly desktop.

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     In order to experiment with this XFCN, do the following:

1)  Duplicate any folder on your drive
2)  Open the copy and "mess things up"
3)  Pass the full pathnames of these two
       folders to this XCMD
4)  The files in the destination folder
       should be arranged in the same
       fashion as the source files