PreOpenBackground Messages

[Brian Milby]

There is a parameter to tell which group is the target of the message. I didn’t think the group would need to check to see if it was supposed to be the target of the message though. The openBackground dictionary entry doesn’t make that clear. The preOpenBackground dictionary entry does point it out though.

In my case, I wanted to do an initialization of some script locals to avoid calculating them each resize. I was trying to eliminate an if statement to check for initialization. For other reasons, I’m leaving in that check though.

Thanks,
Brian
On Sep 5, 2018, 4:53 PM -0500, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> The alternative would be to send a separate message for every background on a card. It is odd though. Brian, have you tried the target to determine the group you need?
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> Bob S
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> > On Sep 5, 2018, at 13:55 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/05/2018 01:45 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
> > > Right, but the message for group B is sent to group A. If A doesn’t pass, B never sees it. I see it in the dictionary, but it seems weird.
> >
> > Yeah, that just seems wrong to me. Doesn't seem like there should be a hierarchy for background groups.
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> > --
> > Mark Wieder
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