Bruce Lewis wrote:
> 3. Put nothing in each control. In a stack that I will insert in the back I
> will determine the target of each mouseup and call a handler depending on
> the name of the target.
>
> As far as I can see all of these methods will work.
>
> Method 3 is perhaps slower, but I assume the difference would be
> inconsequential.
Indeed it is. Measuring the different with MetaBench shows it to be about
0.00064 ticks. :)
MetaBench can be downloaded at:
<ftp://ftp.fourthworld.com/MetaCard/4W_MetaBench.mc.sit.hqx>
> It also seems somehow contrary to the spirit of how this
> kind of scripting should work. By the same logic, you need never put
> scripts in any specific controls, but instead just check all messages as
> part of one massive script in the back.
Not contrary at all: such flexibility and consolidation is part of the
beauty of the message hierarchy.
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