UI component openCard/preOpenCard

[Rob Cozens]

>>  How might these components receive these calls?
>
>The preOpenCard & openCard messages are sent to the card;

In card or higher script:

on preOpenCard
    get the number of controls of the target
    repeat with x = 1 to it
      send "preOpenCard" to control it
    end repeat
end preOpenCard

Note that each control MUST contain a preOpenCard handler or the 
message will be passed up to the card...and processing should loop 
until RAM is exhausted.

A better solution would be to pass the controls a different message, 
eg: cardPreOpen, rather than using system messages usually targeted 
to higher objects.
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)