Problems placed grouped groups

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Mar 14 23:11:45 EST 2005


On 3/14/05 9:12 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:

>> On 3/14/05 6:38 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>  What is the logic of having a background within a background? Is this
>>>  supported? What would be the message passing?
>> 
>> Well, technically speaking, having a "background" (i.e. a  group with
>> backgroundBehavior=true) inside another "background" *is* supported, but it
>> doesn't gain you anything... the embedded group would be shared along with
>> like the main group regardless of the embedded group's backgroundBehavior
>> property.
>> 
>> Message passing would be:
>> 
>>   objects in embedded group -> embedded group -> main group -> card
> 
> What about messages sent to objects in parent group and objects on card?

Those would bypass the objects in the embedded group and the embedded group
itself. Messages sent to the parent group (what I called the "main group")
would be:

  (message) -> main group -> card


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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