groups and background

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>> so there IS a RunRev specific reason to use the the "background" 
>> concept.
>>
> I think the double "the" typo is significant.  I think we run into 
> trouble in thinking of "the" background concept.  There seems to be 
> two, even though both seem to have a basis in history.  There is 
> background in the sense of backgroundBehaviour and background in the 
> sense of thinking of groups belonging to the stack.  The 
> backgroundbehaviour path modification, automatic placement and 
> backgroundNames() are related to the first concept.  The rest of the 
> uses of the word "background" seem to be related to the second, though 
> there may be a few for the first concept that I missed.

For example I just learned that openBackground is sent only for groups 
with backgroundBehavior set to true, so it belongs with the first 
concept of background.

I wonder if there are more.

Dar Scott


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