Thanks for looking into this all. Leave it to me to attempt some edge case scenario. I'm curious how Trevor handles this in his levure framework. There's no way I can see to move current custom code to a stack only script for datagrids.
Bob S > On Jul 23, 2018, at 14:01 , Brian Milby via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So that is something that could be fixed pretty easily. I’m thinking a script > local to store the value which will offset the additional work to figure it > out the first time. > > Logic would be to check for some key object and if not found then move up the > behavior chain a level and look. Could either decide that only one could be > there or just keep going until there are no more. There is no error checking > now, so it could fail in the same manner. > > A side effect would be that the call would be faster for every other use > since it would only be checking that the script local wasn’t empty and > returning the value. > > Another option would be to just initialize the variable in _Initialize and > use it for the 10 places the function is currently used. That would be even > faster since it would eliminate the function call completely. > > Thanks, > Brian > On Jul 23, 2018, 1:24 PM -0500, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode > <[email protected]>, wrote: >> The problem Bob Sneidar ran into by changing the order of the behaviors of a >> dataGrid is due to the initialization process of the dataGrid at start-up. >> >> The behavior looks for a resourceStack by means of this handler. >> >> private function _ResourceStack >> local theStack, theCharNo >> put the behavior of me into theStack >> if theStack is not empty then >> put offset(" of stack", theStack) into theCharNo <-- looks only at first >> behavior which is in Bob's case the wrong stack >> delete char 1 to (theCharNo + 3) of theStack >> end if >> >> return theStack >> end _ResourceStack >> >> >> In Bob's case the function returns the stack the button his newly assembled >> behavior is placed on instead of stack "revdatagridlibrary.rev". >> Then the initialization trys to set again behaviors of specific elements of >> the datagrid to scripts of the "correct" _ResourceStack. >> >> This fails obviously and is the reason for Bob's approach to fail. >> >> Further details of this on request, I don't want to bother the list with >> them. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Bernd >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> The more I've explored this the more subclassing by inserting a custom >> behavior in between a custom control and its original behavior should work. >> It's curious that it doesn't here. >> >> What exactly were the errors you encountered? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
