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[21831] Ensure you can copy/cut/clear grouped controls from the PB
OK, so here's something that's really confusing:
revIDEObjectsAreSelectable is used to determine whether you can cut/clear objects through the contextual menu at the moment. But how do you pop up a contextual menu if the object is not selectable? Also, revIDEObjectsAreSelectable is incorrect to say that its function is to
Determine if a list of objects are selectable using the select command
As you can group a button, turn selectGroupedControls off and do select button 1 just fine.
Given that it is only used for contextual menus and is a guard against failure of revIDESelectObjects (which is how the implementations of the picked functions work - i.e. select and then perform action, I think we can potentially get rid of revIDEObjectsAreSelectable, or at least its use in the menu bar context menu stuff. Unless something somewhere else in the IDE relies on either of these...
Hmm revIDEObjectsAreSelectable could just have the same owner check removed as long as selectGroupedControls is not changed before revIDESelectObjects. Then it still guards against un-open controls or selecting across stacks etc. Of course if we change the implementation of cut, copy and clear to not involve selection then we don't have any of these concerns although we would have to expose the serialised object format to script in order to implement cut and copy that way.
This is what we need to guard against and I think this patch as is would throw errors in this case.