Thanks Devin,
You are correct. I messed up and was running 4.5.2 on the Mac. So,
what this means is that from 4.6 on backgroundBehavior = true for
groups on >1 card is the expected behavior? Anyone know why this
change was made? It seems like a pain in terms of message passing for
groups that are intended to act like self contained controls rather
than a shared resource on multiple cards.
Tim Bleiler, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer, HSIT
University at Buffalo
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote:
Hi,
The backgroundBehavior property of groups appears to work differently
on Mac vs Windows, Livecode version 4.6.1. On Mac, backgroundBehavior
can be toggled between true and false at any time. On Windows
BackgroundBahavior must always be true IF the group is on more than
one card. If you try to change the BackgroundBehavior to false for a
group that is on more than one card on windows the engine throws an
error. On Mac, it can be changed with no problem. Am I missing
something or may this be a bug?
Hi Tim,
I'm not seeing this on Mac with LC 4.6.1. The checkbox to change the
property is disabled if the group is on > 1 card, and trying to set
it to false in the message box does indeed throw an error. Might you
perhaps have been running a slightly older version when this
happened? As I recall, this change (enforcing backgroundBehavior =
true on all groups placed on > 1 card) only came into effect in 4.6.0.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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