"after after" for behaviors?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Jul 29 16:47:42 EDT 2016


Your "least ugly" idea is the only one I can think of too. Send the 
command at the end of the sequence.

On 7/29/2016 3:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> *bump*
>
> any ideas, anyone?
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am trying to implement a generalized behavior that triggers after the
>> entire execution path, rather than after the immediate script, but before
>> the next script in the path.
>>
>> Actually, having control return to a handler after "pass someHandler"
>> would also solve my issues.
>>
>> A control might be clicked on, or text entered in a field, and so forth,
>> that triggers handlers that set values and dependent values.
>>
>> I would like a group that owns such controls to be able to take actions
>> *after* all such calculations.
>>
>> So if someone enters "foo" in field "bar", the closeField handler
>> currently figures out what to do with that value, and anything that
>> depends.  Similarly if I click on my custom checkboxes, the mouse handler
>> does similar calculations.
>>
>> I want another handler to run *after* all such things--but if I have an
>> "after closeField" in the behavior, it simply runs after closeField, but
>> before closeFIeld gets passed.  And as near as I can tell, even without a
>> closeField handler for the object or group, the after closeField still gets
>> called prior to working its way up.
>>
>> Is there a solution other than what would be ugly hacks at the end of my
>> closeField and mouseUp handlers?   (they would be ugly because it would be
>> properties of the group that need to be accessed, and the control could be
>> a child, grandchild, etc. of the actual group [which is why I want the
>> behavior to belong to the group]).
>>
>> The "least ugly" idea I have so far is something like concluding the
>> universal closeField with "send aftrClsFld to the target"
>> --
>> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
>> (702) 508-8462
>>
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