>> An option has been proposed here in which messages captured by the backdrop
>> would be processed.
>>
>> Mr. Raney -- what was the last word on that?
>
> It's on the feature-request list, but there's been no breakthrough on
> deciding how and where the messages would be delivered (i.e., what
> would be "the target" in this case?) and so development of this
> feature hasn't been scheduled yet.
>
> As stated in my last message to you:
>
> Things would have been a lot easier if the backdrop had been
> originally designed as an object, in which case you'd have been able
> to do things like:
> set the script of the backdrop to whatever
> set the backColor of the backdrop to "red"
> set the visible of the backdrop to true
> etc...
>
> Unfortunately the SC developers didn't think this far ahead, and this
> new architecture is fundamentally incompatible with the current syntax.
I suppose in the long term it might be ideal to have the backdrop
implemented as a true object, but I woldn't vote for spending any time on
that unless it's absolutely necessary.
Perhaps as a workaround we could allow backscripts to trap mouse activity in
the backdrop, listing either "backdrop" or the backscript itself as the
target.
Would this work?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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