MetaCard IDE and groups
Robert Brenstein
rjb at robelko.com
Sun Feb 5 20:25:00 EST 2012
On 04.02.2012 at 23:50 Uhr -0700 Vokey, John apparently wrote:
>I have a baffling condition. Over the many years I have used
>MetaCard in my lab (and, yes, I still use that IDE), the one
>reliable object was the group. Group a bunch of objects and you can
>cut and paste and reuse them as a group everywhere. The key feature
>with a group is that it acts like one: unless you explicitly open
>it, it functions as a simple object. Apparently, no longer. I
>paste a group and then go to, say, move it: no dice. I can't move
>it as a group, and all (and only) of the sub-elements are
>selectable. Indeed, it doesn't behave as a group at all, even
>though the Control Browser still claims it is. So, go back to the
>original stacks containing the groups. Same thing: they don't
>function as groups, even though the control browser still claims
>they are.
sounds like selectGroupedControls is true.
robert
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