I had latched onto the "copy" and "clone" commands as an alternative to failing to make only one specific image in a hidden group of images visible. The answer was found within your reply. Prior to your post I had tried:
set the visible of image "mail" to true
That didn't work. I then tried the same line but modified like this:
set the visible of image "mail" of group "icons" to true
That didn't work. However, if I first made the group visible, I could then make the images in that group invisible (following the general thrust of your script). So the script required seems to be this:
-- a few lines of code above this determine which image to show
-- and place its name into the var myImage
set the lockScreen to true
show group "icons" -- always named thusly
repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls in group "icons"
if the short name of control i of group "icons" is myImage then
-- do nothing
else
hide control i of group "icons"
end repeat
set the lockScreen to false
wait 2 seconds -- or the appropriate amount of time
set the lockScreen to true
repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls in group "icons"
show control i of group "icons" -- there are never more than 7 total
end repeat
hide group "icons"
set the lockScreen to falseNow I don't need to "copy" or "clone" anything. I had been frustrated by the inability to make visible just one control in that group; of course, I had not been thinking hierarchically - the group was invisible therefore I had to make it visible first before I could make the rest of the objects in that group INvisible. Still, one might wonder: So what? If the group was now visible, how could I make one control in that group behave otherwise? Seems like an inconsistency (and I may be thinking non-hierarchically again). However, I'm not complaining as the problem seems to be resolved in a manner that plays nicely with encryption.Thanks again for your help. I owe you another beer.
Regards, Barry
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 06:19 America/Denver, Klaus illuminated:
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:08:14 +0200 Subject: Re: Manipulating an object cloned from a group From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Barry,
If I clone an object belonging to an invisible group, the new object belongs to that group. If I'd like to manipulate that object all by its lonesome (make it visible, change its location, and delete it), how would I go about doing this?
You can do this, assumed the name of the cloned grp = "clone" (not very clever, i know ;-) ... set the loc of btn "bill" of grp "clone" to 100,100 ## will distinguish this button from the button with the same name of grp "original" ... delete btn "bill" of grp "clone" ...
To make one object of an invisible grp visible i would use a repeat-loop like: ... repeat with i = 1 to the num of controls of grp "clone" hide control i of grp 1 end repeat ### necessary since we have to set the group to visible!!! show btn "bill" of grp "clone" ...
Un-/lock screen will speed things up, if you have lots of controls...
Hope that helps... Regards Klaus Major
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