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ispyisail 2772b690e8 Let a script duplicate elements, with the conductors between them
duplicateElements(fromFolio, [uuids], toFolio, x, y)
  selectedElements(folio)

What Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do: the named elements are selected, serialised
with Diagram::toXml(false, true), the previous selection is put back, and
the copy is pasted with Diagram::fromXml() and a single
PasteDiagramCommand. A conductor is copied only if both its ends are among
the copied elements. As on a paste in the application, the copies come
without labels or their conductors' wire numbers (measured: empty on
both). One undo removes the elements and the conductor together.

Three properties found by measuring rather than assuming:

- Position is the top left of the pasted group's bounding rectangle, so an
  element's own origin ends up offset by its hotspot: +20, +30 for a coil,
  identical across two trials. (0, 0) is not a position; Diagram::fromXml
  treats the origin as "keep the source coordinates".
- The application's pasted list is in scene order, not the order the
  elements were named. Asking for the elements at x = 700, 100, 900 returned
  the copies of 100, 700, 900, so a caller pairing copies with sources by
  index was wired to the wrong ones with no error. A paste is a pure
  translation, so sorting sources and copies by position pairs them, and
  the result is returned in the order asked. Checked with a scrambled
  request over a zig-zag layout: every copy is the identical translation
  (-30, -20) from the source at its index. Two elements at one point cannot
  be told apart; if the counts disagree it says so and returns the
  unpaired list rather than guess.
- Copying works by selecting, so the previous selection is given back;
  selectedElements() exists to make that checkable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 21:56:31 +12:00
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