Controls in a stack

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/22/13 3:16 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> I don't think it will. Behaviors expect a long ID don't they? What
> would the long ID of a non-placed background look like? I will bet
> lunch the next time I see you at any LC conference it will not work.

The long ID doesn't change just because the background is not placed. 
Objects in unplaced backgrounds can be referenced normally.

>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 1/22/13 2:36 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>>> One more thing to note about unplaced BGs - they and their
>>> contents are not in the message path. So any hidden handlers in
>>> there won't respond to normal message-passing. I haven't tried
>>> "dispatch" or "send" to them.
>>
>> I haven't tried it, but an unplaced background might also be a good
>> place to store behavior buttons. It seems like it should work, and
>> we wouldn't need an invisible button on a card.
>>
>> -- Jacqueline Landman Gay
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