post factum Background behavior?

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 30/01/2010 17:05, zryip theSlug wrote:
> 2010/1/30 Richmond Mathewson<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>:
>    
>> On 30/01/2010 16:45, Klaus on-rev wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi Richmond,
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Suppose we have a stack with 20 cards already populated with all sorts of
>>>> complicated stuff,
>>>> and then we want to spread an image across all those cards but realise
>>>> that to copy-paste
>>>> on each card will bloat the stack ridiculously . . .
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to set an object to have background behaviour so that it
>>>> will propagate
>>>> across a series of cards after those cards have been set up?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> just "group" that image/object and "place" it on the necessary cards.
>>>
>>>        
>> Err . . . "place" . . . ?
>>      
> Hi Richmond,
>
> Just group your image in the first card of your stack and execute a
> script like this:
>
> on mouseUp
>     repeat with theCard = 1 to number of cards of this stack
>        lock messages
>        go cd theCard
>        if (there is no group "My_Image") then
>           place background "My_Image" onto this card
>        end if
>        unlock messages
>     end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
>
>    
Thanks so much for your help!