Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 03.03.2015 at 7:31 Uhr -0500 stgoldb...@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

Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
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

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Goldberg wrote: I think the bottom line is to be cautious about putting mouseUp scripts in background groups, or to put a disclaimer in the group at the beginning of the group handler the line (as mentioned in the User Manual (pg 131, 5.3.9): if the owner of the target is not me

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for that explanation Richard. I finally get the difference between sharedBehavior and backgroundBehavior. Seems like sharedBehavior is the one to use for everything except old HC stacks. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015, 7:14 AM Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Stephen Goldberg wrote:

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/3/2015 9:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The backgroundBehavior property is a tricky thing, I think of it like this: A message to an object will always go to the object's owner group(s) first, if any. After that it hits the card and follows the normal hierarchy. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Haworth
While on the subject of out-of-the-normal message paths, I came across another one a couple of months ago. openControl messages are sent to the highest level group and then DOWN to any of it's child groups which seems the opposite of the normal message direction. It gets more interesting though.

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Michael Doub
Richard, Very nice explanation of this. I always wondered about the relationship between this properties. Thanks, Mike On 3/3/15 10:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Stephen Goldberg wrote: I think the bottom line is to be cautious about putting mouseUp scripts in background groups, or to