SCRIPTS IN GROUPS

[Bill]

It might not be true because I am looking again at that and I think I have
one group inside another. The larger group holding an image so I can scroll
it. But that one doesn't have the background set to true.


On 8/6/05 9:02 AM, "Jon" <jbondy at sover.net> wrote:

> Is it really true that a Group that is not in the Background takes up
> (i.e., accepts mouse events from) the whole card?!?
> 
> :)
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> Bill wrote:
> 
>> Thanks. It sure helps. I feel like a loser, sort of, but more and more I am
>> avoiding groups because they confuse me. I should have realized what
>> "setting the background behavior to true" would do. I have to think of a
>> group as always taking up the whole area of the card and not just the
>> bounded area that it appears to take up.
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/6/05 8:37 AM, "Klaus Major" <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Hi Bill,
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> How come if you have a script in a group, and that group is the
>>>> same size as
>>>> a button, the "mouse-up" handler in the group responds when you click
>>>> anywhere in the card and not just directly over the group?
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>> if the "backgroundbehavior" of that group = true, then this is the
>>> correct behavior!
>>> 
>>> That script is put into the message path AFTER the card:
>>> 
>>> object -> (group with NO bg behav.) -> card -> BG (= group WITH bg
>>> behav.) -> stack...
>>> 
>>> I alsways check "the owner of the target" in these cases in the bg
>>> script.
>>> 
>>> on mouseup
>>>     if the owner of the target = me then
>>>      ## an object INSIDE that group was clicked
>>>     end if
>>> end mouseup
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Klaus Major
>>> klaus at major-k.de
>>> http://www.major-k.de
>>> 
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