Can An Object Know About Itself?

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 08:20:00 EST 2012


Oops, of course remove the "put the oldselected" of this stack" line from
the inserted button script.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thought, use a frontscript.
>
> As a test I created a group with several objects including 1 button to use
> as frontscript.
>
> For the group, this:
>
> on selectedobjectchanged
>    if the long id of button "fscriptb" of me is not among the lines of the
> frontscripts then
>       insert script of button "fScriptb" of me into front
>    end if
> end selectedobjectchanged
>
> command rossiObjectDeselected
>    put the long id of me & random(1000)
> end rossiObjectDeselected
>
>
>
> For the button this:
>
> on selectedobjectchanged pVar
>    set the oldSelected of this stack  to the nowSelected of this stack
>    set the nowselected of this stack to the selectedobjects
>    put the oldselected of this stack
>    if the oldselected of this stack is not empty then dispatch
> "rossiObjectDeselected" to (the oldselected of this stack)
>    pass selectedobjectchanged
> end selectedobjectchanged
>
>
> It seems to work ok, though it doesn't take into account multiple
> instances of the group, so perhaps another property to determine if the
> script has been inserted into front already or not.  Then use that property
> rather than the contents of the frontscripts to decide whether or not to
> insert the script into front.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Make the group a background. That should allow it to catch the
>> selectedObjectChanged message.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
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>> On 2 mrt 2012, at 07:48, 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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