Controls in a stack

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Tue Jan 22 16:16:34 EST 2013


I don't think it will. Behaviors expect a long ID don't they? What would the long ID of a non-placed background look like? I will bet lunch the next time I see you at any LC conference it will not work. 

Bob


On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 1/22/13 2:36 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>> One more thing to note about unplaced BGs - they and their contents are
>> not in the message path. So any hidden handlers in there won't respond
>> to normal message-passing. I haven't tried "dispatch" or "send" to them.
> 
> I haven't tried it, but an unplaced background might also be a good place to store behavior buttons. It seems like it should work, and we wouldn't need an invisible button on a card.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         




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