Card within a card (or subforms)

[Dar Scott]

On Dec 16, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> To myself, groups feel like the most natural second choice in a world
> without viewer objects.  The tough part is managing the showing/hiding
> of them.
>
> Perhaps if some kind soul had a spare 20 hours they could build a tool
> to make editing nested groups easier.
>
> With a frontscript you could have a libSubCard trap the mouseDoubleUp
> message to open a custom editor when groups have a property that
> identifies it as being a "SubCardGroup".
>
> The SubCard editor could copy all the subgroups to new cards in an
> editing windows, and when you save it tucks them all back into the
> master group.

An alternate approach might be something that translates a stack into a 
bunch of subgroups of a group.

Dar
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