Copying and Pasting Techniques
GlowJo now supports dragging and dropping of complete tables and layouts from one workspace to another.
The use of the Macintosh clipboard to transfer objects from one location to another is supported in almost all applications. When working with text or numbers, FlowJo supports Cut, Copy & Paste in a very standard way, but it extends the operations to also work with graphs and objects in a layout.
When copying nodes within the workspace, you can broaden the selection by using the same modifier keys as you would to enhance a drag operation. The option key will include all of the children of the selected population. The control key will include all of the ancestor populations (parent, grandparent, etc.) on the clipboard.
When pasting nodes into a workspace, the contents of the clipboard will be grafted onto each selected node in the destination. This means that you can copy the analysis from one tree, select multiple target destinations (using shift or command clicking) and paste the clipboard onto all of the targets in a single paste operation.
If the nodes you are pasting already exist in the destination, then you will be asked what to do: you can replace the existing nodes with the ones you are copying, you can duplicate the nodes you are pasting (the duplicate nodes will have a "-2" appended to their name), or you can elect to retain the nodes in the destination sample. The latter is useful when you want to copy a whole tree with new analyses onto a sample which already has some of the gates, but you want to change the sample's versions of the gates. These options are more fully discussed in the pages on replacing existing nodes.
Performing a copy from a graph window will put several versions of the graph onto the clipboard. If it is a histogram, the values of each bin will be written as text to the clipboard (to facilitate pasting this data into a spreadsheet or statistics package), the image of the graph will be written as a PICT (for export to any graphics package).
