Problems placed grouped groups

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
Mon Mar 14 22:29:08 EST 2005


Also OS X 10.3.8 and Rev 2.5.1. Engine 2.6.2 BuildNumber 73

Created a new stack
placed three buttons
placed two fields
grouped the buttons
selected the new group and the two fields and grouped them
Opened Navigator
selected the button group and showed properties
named the group "bob"
set the group's backgroundBehavior to true
created a new card
opened the message box
typed 'place bg "bob" onto this cd' and pressed return
bg "bob" containing the buttons showed on the card
hit command 1 to check out the first card
The first card displayed, with both groups.
Pressed command 4 to go back to the second card to have another look
Rev didn't go to the second card.
A few seconds later Rev died.

But it did place the sub-group properly before it died. I would argue 
that the concept of treating a sub-group as a background, or trying to 
place it independently of the group that contains it, is bad juju and 
should be avoided.

On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Well, here's what I can report. Perhaps it'll help you track down the 
> issue.
>
> On OS X 10.3.8 with Rev 2.5.1:
>
> When I create the main group baseControls and then break out some of 
> its buttons as a separate, nested group whose backgroundbehavior is 
> turned on (while that of the baseControls is not), creating a new card 
> does not automatically place the nested group. I'd expect it would 
> since its backgroundBehavior is set to true. But an attempt to place 
> that nested group explicitly in the message box per your instructions 
> does not place this group. Rather, it gives an error about Rev being 
> unable to find the background.
>
> I can hide and show and do other things to the nested group on the one 
> card where it is created/located, but cannot, apparently, place it on 
> another card.
>
> So I presume you're using a different platform or version since you're 
> seeing different behavior.
>
> dan
>
> On Mar 13, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>> scenario: create group-background with 10 fields and  navigation 
>> btns... standard
>>
>> first  prev   next   last and some fields for a "dbase" record...
>>
>> Name this big group "baseControls"
>>
>> edit group baseControls... select just these four navigation buttons, 
>> group them, and name the group "navButtons"   making a group that is 
>> nested inside the main group. Background behavior of the new, small, 
>> 4btn group is checked on.
>>
>> now, create a new card with no group placed on it at all, completely 
>> blank. go to msg, run:
>>
>> "place group "navButtons" onto this card"
>>
>> the four nav buttons appear as expected.
>>
>> Save, close stack, quit Rev, re-open.. now the "navButton" group does 
>> not appear on the newly created card... am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sivakatirswami
>>
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regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com



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