Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Tweedly wrote:

 > On 09/06/2017 00:40, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> I don't understand.  A script-only stack contain no objects, so
 >> even if you later copy them, they still need to be dynamically
 >> instantiated at some point, no?
 >>
 >> Like a Zen koan: how can there be a binary object where there is no
 >> binary object?
 >>
 > Hmmm - we're probably heading off into the weeds here ....
 >
 > The script-only stack is used as a behaviour for controls within
 > another stack - so it can copt hose controls without them bieng binary
 > objects within the scrip-only stack.
 >
 > OR
 >
 > The script-only stack creates a set of objects the first time it is
 > used (creating the template group).
 > Subsequent uses of the script (in the same context) will (at most)
 > copy that template group - so yes they are being created - but with
 > minimal work because it's doing a copy rather than  "create and then
 > set lots of properties".
 >
 > So not quite as much saving in the second case - but still less work
 > than creating and setting lots of properties for the controls.

Thanks.  Glad to find there isn't some mysterious wormhole I'd never 
conceived of in which a script-only stack can contain things beyond a 
script.

But also disappointed. There are a few cases where such a thing may be 
useful.

I'll leave wormholes to theoretical physics, and just stick to my 
script-only stacks and NIB-like UI stacks for now.

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