Newbie question

[Thomas McGrath III]

Steve, Welcome to RR.

I also came from the HC/SC background and was taken by the group "behave" issue, at first it seemed an oversight to a much used convention. But since I've been using RR I have found that I use backgrounds less and less. I think this is one thing that truly differentiates RR from HC and SC. In HC I used Cards with backgrounds in every project, then in SC I made the jump to windows with many cards and some backgrounds and now I use many stacks with windows with some cards and very few backgrounds. It is a change in the way I have come to think about our style of programming. The message path and properties etc. take on a much more important roll nowadays and some things like background behaviors taken on a much smaller role.

Anyway, you seem to have found what you need so Welcome and hope to see you more on the list.


Tom McGrath


On May 4, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Steve Jones wrote:

> Aha - that was it.  Didn't even see that option.  No very intuitive.  You have to create a GROUP and then assign it to be a BACKGROUND rather than just going straight to a background to begin with.  I guess there's more flexibility that way.
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> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> 
> On May 4, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
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>> On May 4, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
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>>> I see in RR that you put items in GROUPS to have them appear on every card in a stack as opposed to SC where you put them in the BACKGROUND.  I have a GROUP of items on a single card in a stack. When the CREATE CARD command is issued in a handler, a new card is created but the GROUP is not on it.  What might I be doing wrong?
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>> Look in the inspector palette for the group, and see if its "Behave like a background" box is checked.
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