'Copy with override Into...' can create orphan INFOs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
Load Plugin2 (plugin1 also loads because it's a master of plugin2)
In plugin 2, go down to dialog topic and expand the dialog topic group.
Shift-click to select Topic forms 0102D263 to 0102D267
Right-click -> copy-As-Override into -> select Plugin1
Shift-click to select INFO forms 0102D268 to 0102D270
Right-click -> copy-As-Override into -> select Plugin1

Examine the copied records in Plugin1. The INFO records appear to be orphaned 
and attached to a 'Children' group, even though the records show as ITMs in 
plugin2. Some hidden data is not being copied?

When you open Plugin1 with the GECK, all the INFOS are lumped into topic 
0102D267 instead of their own topics.

What is the expected output?
Expect the copy to be identical to the source

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
3.0.27 on Vista x64 and Fallout New Vegas

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rickerhk...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 3:38

Attachments:

• INFO-Orphans.zip

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Tried it in old FNVEdit 3.0.21 and it bugs too, look like a legacy error.
However if I copy DIAL records using deep copy everything look fine.
Why do you need to copy DIAL and INFO separately? Maybe I don't know something, 
but it is better to copy everything and then remove what you don't need.

Original comment by zila...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 6:24

• Changed state: Accepted

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If a topic and it's info's are native only to plugin 2, then Deep copy is 
available and it works fine to copy it to plugin 1. It just never occurred to 
me to try Deep Copy with dialog because with older version of xEdit it would 
just end up with assertion errors.

Also, it looks like if a topic is already in both plugins, then deep copy into 
plugin 1 is not available. But then the bug seems to only only occur if Plugin 
1 has no INFOs and you are copying a new INFO from plugin 2 into plugin 1.

So the work-around would be:
In the GECK, don't add topics to quests without giving them at least one INFO.
Deep copy Topics with their INFOs if the topic doesn't exist in the target.
Just copy if adding new INFOs to a topic that is already in the target.
If the target already has the topic, but no INFOs, delete it so you can do a 
deep copy.

Original comment by rickerhk...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 11:37

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You've just blown mt brain with this description, but I'm happy that there is a 
workaround.
But not sure that I'll be able to fix it any time soon.

Original comment by zila...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2012 at 6:04

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No rush. Thanks for all you're doing with this program.

Original comment by rickerhk...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2012 at 12:15

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The exact cause is that xxEdit requires the GRUP for INFO to exactly follow the 
DIAL Record to properly display. When you add more than one dial first, then 
the INFO(s) the saved order was wrong like (DIAL DIAL GRUP INFO INFO GRUP INFO) 
rather tha (DIAL GRUP INFO INFO GRUP INFO). I added an override to AddElement 
for GroupRecord that InsertElement the GRUP after the DIAL rather than adding 
at the end.

Should be corrected as part of r1069.

Original comment by HuguesLe...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2012 at 9:22

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Status update

Original comment by HuguesLe...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2013 at 12:20

• Changed state: Started

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Corrected with 3.0.28

Original comment by HuguesLe...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2013 at 6:49

• Changed state: Fixed