[ANN] MobGUI themes

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/5/14 10:24 AM, Vaughn Clement wrote:
> The image control question I have in the "How to" is the issue where an
> image control appears that it cannot be used in a background because it
> assigns any new image to all of the image controls on all cards in the
> stack. Is this true or is there a setting that can allow the function to
> work in the background?

That's just how backgrounds work. Any card that has the background will 
display everything in that background group. To keep an image unique to 
a single card, the answer is just not to put it into the background at all.

If for some reason you do need to have the image in a background group, 
then you can test the card on every preOpenCard to see if it should display:

on preOpenCard
   if the short name of this card is "thatOneSpecialCard" then
     show img "myPhoto"
   else
     hide img "myPhoto"
   end if
end preOpenCard

which can be shortened to:

   set the visible of img "myPhoto" to (the short name of this cd = 
"thatOneSpecialCard")

Maybe if we knew the reason you want the image in a group we can offer 
other suggestions. There's a way you can script the image content to 
change on preOpenCard, if that's what you're after.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com