LC MISTAKES

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Jacqi,

I've always appreciate your attempts to "educate" me on this subject. I just didn't want to do things that way, so I ignored your efforts, figuring your postings on the topic must be helping someone else on the list. So I guess I was both deaf and blind to the issue. My biggest complaint regarding the re-coding that Revolution did, when importing H/C stacks, was when I went back into the "converted" stacks to make changes, I had to struggle to find where to make the changes. Somebody else had been messing with my code.

Water over the dam now. Thanks.

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/1/13 5:42 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> I want my background
>> layer back. Not going to happen, I know. (sigh)
> 
> I realize this is a bit tangential to your main point, but I'm not sure what you're missing with backgrounds. I still occasionally port old HC stacks and their backgrounds work fine, including their original HC scripts. LiveCode uses the same syntax, which MetaCard introduced in order to be compatible with HC stacks.
> 
> To reproduce HC backgrounds, just make a group, set its backgroundBehavior to true, and it's layer to 1. That's it. It will work like HC did. Limit yourself to a single background on a card and you have the old paradigm.
> 
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