Problem with Groups

[Stephen King]

Hi JB

Hadn't thought of using IDs with Offsets - yes seems easy to calculate and
should work. I have since thought of another way that works that seems to be
generic enough:

Field and Image - Pass MouseUp
Group - send message to Card with 'the name of me' as a parameter or placed
in a global.

However, I feel I'm missing something here and there must be a way of
clicking the group directly (so it is the TARGET).

Cheers
Steve

> Stephen,
>
> You could use "the ID of target" to know the ID of the object
> being clicked, and then search through a list to know which
> group the target belongs to (this can be done easy & fast with
> lineoffset for instance)...
>
> You could also change slightly the name of your objects :
> for instance : "Front-1" and "Image-1" for group 1, etc.
> Then, when trapping the name of the clicked object, it's
> quite simple to know which group it belongs to...
>
> Hope that helps,
> JB
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm sure this is really simple (and has probably been answered many
times
> > before - and apologies if it has), but a review of the dox doesn't seem
to
> > help, nor could I find what I was looking for in the archives.
> >
> > I have a number of groups on a card each of which has a field and and
image
> > over it (same size). Each group is uniquely named ("group1", group2...)
but
> > the field and image are the same for each (ie Field "Front" and Image
> > "Back").
> >
> > My problem is with messages.. when the group is clicked, I want to send
a
> > message to the card giving the group name.
> > What seems to happen though is that either the field or image (whichever
is
> > visible) receives the click, not the group. I then tried putting pass
> > MouseUp  into the field and image script - this certainly gives the
message
> > to the group script, but when the handler in the card is called, the
target
> > is still the Field or Image not the group.
> >
> > I need the group name passed up so I know what group the card handler
has to
> > act on (basically reveal or hide and check the data in the field of the
> > specific group), or to be able to mouseUp on the group not image or
field
> > that comprise the group. Ideally, I would like the same script in each
group
> > rather than have to put the group name specifically in the group script
> >
> > Another thought - is the layer number of the group and its object
important?
> > At the moment layer number of the group is lower than its objects.
> >
> > Hope this is clear and any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve