At 12:49 -0500 03/21/2002, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>And this by you would be faster and more efficient than doing a
>>sendAllSprites to execute nothing but the #somethingmeaningful
>>command?
>>
>>Methinks not!
>
>
>If you did the #areyouin every frame, of course not, but you would
>only do that once, the first time into the frame. From then on you
>are doing a sendsprite just to the sprites that have the script.
I was yanking your chain a little. But it does seem rather a baroque
method to implement something that more or less already exists. Kind
of like using imaging Lingo to create shapes on the fly when you
could just as easily use the paint window.
Plus it uses globals, eww. Non-object code! Icky drippy! ;)
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