MetaCard IDE and groups

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Sun Feb 5 20:25:00 EST 2012


On 04.02.2012 at 23:50 Uhr -0700 Vokey, John apparently wrote:
>I have a baffling condition.  Over the many years I have used 
>MetaCard in my lab (and, yes, I still use that IDE), the one 
>reliable object was the group.  Group a bunch of objects and you can 
>cut and paste and reuse them as a group everywhere.  The key feature 
>with a group is that it acts like one: unless you explicitly open 
>it, it functions as a simple object.  Apparently, no longer.  I 
>paste a group and then go to, say, move it: no dice.  I can't move 
>it as a group, and all (and only) of the sub-elements are 
>selectable.  Indeed, it doesn't behave as a group at all, even 
>though the Control Browser still claims it is.  So, go back to the 
>original stacks containing the groups.  Same thing: they don't 
>function as groups, even though the control browser still claims 
>they are.

sounds like selectGroupedControls is true.

robert




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