LC MISTAKES

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Sat Feb 2 23:56:08 EST 2013


That I did NOT know. So object, card, group object belongs to?? That doesn't make a helluvalotta sense to me. 

Bob


On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/1/13 8:29 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>> In terms of hierarchy, where does that group fall? Like, if a card
>> script does a pass, does it go to the groups on the card?
> 
> Background groups receive messages after the card does, so passing a message on the card will send it to the background group. If Joe maintains the HC paradigm of a single background group then it works like HC did.
> 
> If more than one background group exists, then they each receive the message in their layer order after the card gets it, provided one of the backgrounds doesn't trap and stop the message.
> 
> Card groups get messages before the card gets them.
> 
> If you have a mix of card and bg groups, the card groups get the first shot at the message, then the card gets it, then the background groups get it.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:19 PM, "J. Landman Gay"
>> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> To reproduce HC backgrounds, just make a group, set its
>>> backgroundBehavior to true, and it's layer to 1. That's it. It will
>>> work like HC did. Limit yourself to a single background on a card
>>> and you have the old paradigm.
> 
> 
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