Trick for COUNTER animations (copy paste)

[iamjot]

Maybe you have created an awesome set of numbers for a COUNTER OBJECT. If you want to copy paste those numbers to ANOTHER counter object you have a problem while you´ve set your counter to "numbers"!
BUT you can copy/paste your created numbers with this trick:

- Select all the numbers of your first counter and copy them
- Select your second counter in the frame editor
- Set this counter to "animation" in Settings under "Type"
- Double click this counter to open the picture editor
- Paste the numbers from your first counter
- Close the picture editor
- Finally set the second counter from "animation" back to "number"

Voila! Your number counter now has the cool numbers from counter one!

All the best

Jot

[nim]

Or you could just right click and Clone the counter?

This trick is useful if you want to import frames from an Active object into a counter because the Paste action is disabled on counters of "Numbers" type.

Here's where it was discussed yesterday: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/91266-Copying-images-into-counter-objects

tl;dr: Change the counter type to Animation, paste 14 frames exactly, OK, revert the counter type to Numbers. Also works while importing multiple frames at once (import as animation)

[Sylvester]

THANK YOU!!!!!
This helps me a lot, and it saves me a ton of time!

[goldeng]

Very helpful!! Thanks for sharing!