Devin Asay wrote:
> Later I discovered that *someone* (I blame the code kabouters*) had
> gone in and assigned icon states to the buttons using the behaviors,
> rendering the BEFORE and AFTER handlers redundant.
I like "kabouters". I have a friend who refers to unexpected behavior
in software as the work of faeries. I imagine Brahmanathswami blames
the Menehuni. I blame Coyote, the mischievous spirit the native
Californians blamed for the inexplicable annoyances of their world. :)
> So it appears that each time I launch the project I have to reassign
> the behavior to the buttons. This only seems to happen for behaviors
> stored in library stacks. I have seen a similar problem with objects
> that were assigned a background pattern stored in a library stack.
As much as I love behaviors, the finicky way they're resolved has been
an annoyance for me: you have to make sure that any behavior script
objects are loaded before any object that uses them.
For example, if you have a mainstack which is an executable and contains
objects that use behaviors, and a separate library stackfile which
contains the behavior buttons, it will always fail because that
mainstack is opened before the library is loaded, so the resolution will
be attempted before the objects they resolve to can be known.
The workaround is as you've discovered: you have to write code to
reassign the behavior on the fly.
To simplify this occasional necessity, I had hoped the team would have
implemented a command they once talked about in the early days of
behaviors but never quite got around to: "resolve behaviors", which
would trigger the same resolution mechanism that happens when stacks are
first loaded, but could be called whenever you need it.
FWIW I submitted a request for that:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8993>
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