You can assign a behavior to a behavior object for common code you want to use in multiple behaviors. The IDE does support it.
Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Aug 2016, at 7:10 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> > wrote: > > Pursuant to the new text only script architecture possibilities: > > e.g. Group "portal-links" > > Can we assign more than 1 behavior to this(any) group(object)? > > Rumors are that it is possible. But, the IDE does not support it. Or at least > the current property inspector UI as it looks today, does not support it. > > Manual assignment via script or msg box implementation would imply that doing > > "set the behavior of [some object] to the long id of > [someObject/textOnlyScript]" > > effectively replaces the one and only assigned behavior. > > OTOH it does seem useful if you want more robust encapsulation of vars and > methods > > vs overloading the global space with vars and methods from multiple > backscripts and libs added to the msg path by 'start using' > > Comments? > > But first, is it doable at all (2+ behaviors assigned to one object)? > > A snake pit of behaviors that are all encapsulated seems less venomous than a > snake pit of stack/libs/scripts that are a live and globally "hot" in the > message hierarchy. > > Of course one does have the added burden of making the behavior assignment, > but this seems a trivial burden when behaviors are encapsulated vs debugging > a global message path comprised 50 plus backscripts/stack scripts\ > > BR > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
