background grps and preOpenCard

[J. Landman Gay]

Chipp Walters wrote:
> I'm working on a multi-card wizard and came across this and wanted to 
> mention a peculiar behavior and see if people thing it's correct.
> 
> I create a shared background group over a few cards.
> 
> I put in it:
> 
> on preOpenCard
>   beep
> end preOpenCard
> 
> It only gets called on the first card where the group is encountered, 
> and none thereafter. IOW, it appears the preOpenCard message is not sent 
> to a background group except for the first time it's encountered. If I 
> go to a card which doens't have the bgGroup, then back to one that has 
> it, the preOpenCard handler gets called again.
> 
> Weird.
> 
> Just wondering if that seems like *expected* behavior?

No. It should work on every card. This sounds like a similar bug that 
Tim Miller found where the engine would only debug a background script 
on card 1 of the background. I thought that got fixed though.

That said, I created a small stack with the above preopencard handler in 
a background group, and the preopencard handler executed on every card. 
So something else is going on. Do you have "backgroundbehavior" set to true?

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