Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Thu Mar 5 09:24:44 EST 2015


On 03.03.2015 at 7:31 Uhr -0500 stgoldberg at aol.com apparently wrote:
>The issue of a background group being in two places at once is not 
>quite clarified. Getting back to the script sequence below, when 
>there is a mouseUp handler in a background group, the message, on 
>clicking on the grouped button goes from:
>
>
>  button --> group --> card --> stack
>
>When clicking on the card the message goes from:
>
>card --> group --> stack
>
>In effect the group acts on both sides of the card depending on 
>where you click. So is mistaken to think that as soon as a 
>background group is formed it mysteriously picks up and moves from 
>one side of the card to the other (spreading out as it does so).  It 
>in effect remains on both sides, as seen by the message sequence 
>when clicking on the button.
>

If you write the second path as

card --> background --> stack

it will, may be, make more sense.

RObert




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