Background groups

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Fri Feb 8 14:27:01 EST 2013


Trying to avoid any gotchas before embarking on some work involving
background groups and there's precious little information about them.

Are there characteristics of background groups other than the background
behavior property property that must be consistent on whichever card they
are on in order for them to behave as bg groups?  Layer/ID/ Name, for
example?

Do background groups behave differently depending on whether their shared
behavior property is true?

If I copy and paste a bg group onto a card instead of using the place
command, does it mess up it "backgroundness"?  If not, what's
the purpose of the place command

If I delete a bg group from a card rather than use the remove command, does
that in any way affect its instances on other cards?  If not, what's the
purpose of the remove command?

I notice that if I copy and paste a card with a bg group on it into a
different stack, the bg group is still there and has its background
property set.  If I then create a new card in this stack, the background
group is on it.  Will it still behave like a background group linked to the
background group in the original stack?

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



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