1000 objects

[Shari]

>I'm assuming you're drawing something like face-down playing cards. 
>If the appearance is always the same, another way to handle 
>something like this would be to have one graphic instead of many, 
>calculate where the click occurred and then do what is appropriate 
>based on that.

The cards turned out really well.  I am very pleased with that 
upgrade.  The biggest bugger in dealing with the cards was the 
layering.  I finally nailed that.  Hundreds of objects moving around 
and needing to be on top of each other visually... but the layering 
changes with every hand... that took a bit of doing, especially since 
some layers had to go BEHIND other layers.  Otherwise all layers 
could start at 1 and simply add 1 as you went along.

The whole layering issue will come into play again with the chips, 
but I simply will copy what I did with the cards and all should work 
out well.

So far the chips are coming along nicely.  I've discovered a new 
aspect of the "move" command that makes me happy.

           set the lockMoves to true
           repeat for each item s in stackup
             move btn ("chip" & s) from (the loc of btn ("chip" & s)) \
                 to stackWhere in gWiz ticks without waiting
             subtract 3 from item 2 of stackWhere
           end repeat
           set the lockMoves to false

Moves a group of objects all at one time.  In other words, a stack of chips :-)

Pretty nifty.
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