IDE Grouping Woes! Help!

[Sarah Reichelt]

Hi Dave,

Could you post a copy of your stack in RevOnline or email it to me 
off-list? I have never come across a problem like this before, so would 
be interested to see if I could work out what causes it.

> Have a Stack that used to comtain:
>
> GroupX                   (layer order)
>   Graphic rect BoundingRect
>   Graphic rect G-1111
>   Graphic rect G-1112  etc.
>
> The rectangles G-xxxx are all contained within BoundingRect.
>
> I then added two buttons to the stack.
>
> Ungrouped "GroupX" made the bounding rect smalled but shifting the 
> bottom so it was shorter, moved the buttons to within the Rect of 
> GroupX, regrouped and saved the Stack. Then the Group looked like 
> this:
Why did you un-group & then re-group? If it was just to add the new 
buttons, you don't have to do it that way. You can either select the 
group, click "Edit group" in the toolbar and then create your buttons 
directly into the group, or you can create the buttons, cut them and 
then select the group and right-click to get the menu that allows you 
to paste into a group.
>
> GroupX                   (layer order)
>   Button  "new"
>   Button "delete"
>   Graphic rect BoundingRect
>   Graphic rect G-1111
>   Graphic rect G-1112  etc.
>
> All seemed fine.
>
> Then I discover that some code doesn't work anymore! On further 
> investigation the preOpenStack and openStack handlers are not being 
> called. I then editing the card script to beep if openStack is entered 
> and put a breakpoint on the beep and hey presto I hit the breakpoint 
> and now everything works fine!
It may be that un-grouping & re-grouping messed with the message 
passing hierarchy. That's about all I can think of for this one.
>
> I close the stack, shutdown RunRev and re-load the stack. Now 
> "BoundingRect" is back to the size it was BEFORE I changed it BUT the 
> buttons are still there!
I don't tend to use many graphics, but with images, after a resize you 
always need to lock the size & location. Maybe this is the same. 
Alternatively, you may have set up Geometry Manager to resize the 
BoundingRect, or you may have a script that does it.
>
> I if now attempt to change the Size of "BoundingRect" the IDE crashes!
Well that shouldn't happen no matter what you do. File a bug report at 
Bugzilla and attach the stack that makes this happen. If you have any 
crash logs, they are always useful too.
>
> Wisely I made a backup! I am fast learning the ways of RunRev and it's 
> ability to corrupt or lose stacks and always make a backup before 
> doing anything major.
I've been programming in Rev for years now and the only stacks I lost 
were one day when I used the "delete file" command on the wrong 
folder... After learning to cope with HyperCard's ability to corrupt 
stacks on a regular basis, Rev is very refreshing :-)

Cheers,
Sarah