How/When are behavior references resolved?

[Richard Gaskin]

Behaviors are very powerful, but also very picky about how and when 
they're initially resolved.  If you don't architect just so, they will 
not be resolved correctly and your code won't work.

I've submitted a request which would give developer much greater 
flexibility and minimal cost to RunRev:

Add "resolve behaviors" command
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8993>

The idea here is that when the proposed "resolve behaviors" command is 
called, it merely triggers the existing code in the engine which 
resolves behavior references.   This would be exactly as what happens 
when a stack is first loaded, but by being able to invoke resolution at 
any time the developer has much more flexibility with WHEN that 
resolution happens, fixing a good many initialization issues developers 
experience with behaviors.

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