Behaviors

[Dar Scott]

I, too, have discovered the target icon to the right of the behavior object field in the property inspector. Alas, using that that I see only buttons on the current card (and stacks). I don’t see a way to navigate to a different card and select a button there. I might have missed it. — Dar

> On Aug 22, 2023, at 1:05 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> you probably know this: in the property inspector, there's a panel for
> behavior, so you can just select the behavior from a menu button,
> without having to type it
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 1:37 PM Dar Scott via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I figured out how to do it in the IDE. I needed to include “of stack” in the reference. — Dar
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2023, at 11:09 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Not sure how it works in the IDE - seems a problem because it only presents button in the current stack.
>>> 
>>> So I do it all in preOpen... scripts, doing something like
>>> 
>>>> set the behavior of fld "F" of grp tmpName to the long id of button "RichTextFieldBehaviour" of \
>>>>         card "Behaviours" of stack "/Users/alextweedly/Dropbox/My Livecode/Libraries/richText.livecode"
>>> 
>>> Alex.
>>> 
>>> On 22/08/2023 17:57, Dar Scott via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> I am misremembering things about Behaviors.
>>>> 
>>>> I have a card with my behavior buttons, but I can’t seem to point to buttons on that card. Maybe, I’m remembering what I did long ago with front scripts.
>>>> 
>>>> I suppose I can use substacks, but I’m worried that the stacks would be in the message path. Is there a way to keep the stack out of the message path?
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