SCRIPTS IN GROUPS

[Dan Shafer]

James....

When I say it's a surprising feature, I have my Revolutionary hat on.  
As a HC user, of course, I'd expect this, but in HC: (a) a background  
occupies an entire card; and (b) you can only have one. So when I  
learned that one could have more than one bg group in Rev, I  
*assumed* that they would respond to messages in a different way as  
well.

I don't, as I said, think this is a bug, but if you don't come from  
HC, it could be a stumbling block.


On Aug 6, 2005, at 10:13 AM, James Spencer wrote:

>
> On Aug 6, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>
>> While I'm not sure this can be characterized as a bug, I'd call it  
>> a surprising feature. And it has a particularly intriguing problem  
>> if you have multiple background groups. In that case, the  
>> background groups live in layers, of course, each of which is the  
>> effective size of the card. So the topmost background intercepts  
>> all mouseUps (and presumably other such messages) that fall  
>> outside the bounds of any object or other group on the card. I can  
>> see where that might cause a programming dilemma or at least  
>> confusion.
>>
>> I don't think it's necessary to avoid putting scripts in groups,  
>> but it is necessary to be careful what messages you write scripts  
>> for in the groups so that you can handle the flow of messages  
>> properly.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm actually surprised to hear you, as a HyperCard user, say this,  
> i.e. that is a surprising feature.  I may be wrong about this but I  
> had thought the background property was implemented in large part  
> for compatability with HyperCard.  And while it's been years since  
> I've used HC, as I recall in HC, a click outside any other objects  
> would go through to the background which covered the entire card.   
> Personally, the feature that  I found surprising when I started  
> using rev was that you could have more than one background.
>
> Spence
>
> James P. Spencer
> Rochester, MN
>
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