combine two projects into one

[aworonow]

Hi all,
  I have two separate but related projects that I would find convenient to open and manipulate as a single project. Is there some way to join the two, perhaps in separate workspaces of a single project. I'm trying to avoid totally reimplementing one of the projects inside the other, manually.

Thanks, aworonow

[msmythers]

I would think naming conflicts would be the main reason it's not done. The history explorer shows all workspace images at the same time. It would take a separate history for each workspace at minimum. Probably a lot more then just that to keep things right.

When I want to incorporate 1 project into another I open 2 instances of PixInsight with each project. I make sure the image or images I want to move to the other project do not have name conflicts. I then save process containers of particular images histories from the one project and load them into the other project. There are probably better ways but I haven't had to do this but a few times.


Mike

[Juan Conejero]

Right now projects cannot be merged (without a substantial amount of hacking). Mike has pointed out one of the problems, and a good workaround (two instances of the core application). Besides naming conflicts, there are many structural problems that should be solved before doing this. Keep in mind that a project recreates the state of the whole PixInsight platform, not just images. This is something that we'll have to implement eventually. Don't hold your breath, though, as we have tons of priorities competing at present.