Global Misbehaving

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Sep 12 18:38:27 EDT 2007


>Ahh... I do not like the gremlins...
>
>I have seen this recommendation before, to put OpenStack scripts in 
>the card, though it is confusing, because in my understanding, the 
>card is upstream of the message path in this case.
>
>Like, an "OpenCard" script in a control on a card will never trigger.
>
>
>(I have gotten in the habit of trapping openStack messages in substacks with
>
>on openStack
>end openStack
>)
>

True about controls, false about card vs stack. See the great article 
of Richard about message passing for details.

The start-up messages (preopenstack, preopencard, resizestack, 
openstack, opencard) are sent to card 1 of the mainstack and fall to 
stack script if not handled there or passed.

Robert



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