Can An Object Know About Itself?

[Scott Rossi]

Good idea Paul, but unfortunately, at least according to the docs,
closeControl is only sent when leaving a card.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design



Recently, Paul Hibbert wrote:

> Scott,
> 
> I re-watched a seminar from the 09 RevLive by Trevor DeVore recently about
> behaviours and one thing he pointed out was that a behaviour acts like a back
> script for a control, but if I understood him correctly, he also mentioned
> that when behaviours are applied to controls, there are more commands
> available, namely preOpenControl, openControl, closeControl and resizeControl.
> 
> Not sure if it would help, but it sounds like the closeControl may be useful
> to you, I would need to scan the video again to be sure and I am about to go
> out, but I'll certainly have a look when I get back.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On 2 Mar 2012, at 06:48, Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
>> Is there any way for an object to know when it is unselected using only
>> scripts within the object itself?
>> 
>> The selectedObjectChanged is sent to an object when it is selected, but when
>> the object is deselected, the object will only get the selectedObjectChanged
>> message if the selection is changed to nothing.  Is there some way for the
>> object to know it is no longer selected without resorting to an external
>> script? (no front, back, card or stack).
>> 
>> I have a group of objects that needs to reorganize itself when it is
>> deselected, but I'd like to avoid using external scripts to do this so the
>> object is easily portable.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>> 
>> 
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