Re: no dolly needed :-)

[Klaus Major]

Hi Barry,

Klaus,

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.
Of course, the group that acts as a "container" for these images is 
still invisible!

However, if I first made the group visible, I could then make the 
images in that group invisible
???

You can hide/show objects in a group NO MATTER if that grp is visible 
of not!!!
Alhough this makes no "visual" sense ;-)

(following the general thrust of your script). So the script required 
seems to be this:
You can save a few lines and words ;-)

-- a few lines of code above this determine which image to show
-- and place its name into the var myImage
lock screen
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" <> myImage then hide 
control i of group "icons"
end repeat
unlock screen
wait 2 seconds with messages
## in case the user should be able to do other things in the meantime
lock screen
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"
lock screen

BTW, this script does nothing "display"-wise... ;-)

Now 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.
No no, see above...

Still, one might wonder: So what? If the group was now visible, how 
could I make one
control in that group behave otherwise?
I have a little handler, which handles exactly that situation:

on all_but_one the_bg, the_ctrl
  lock screen
  repeat with i = 1 to the num of controls in bg the_bg
     hide control i of bg the_bg
  end repeat
 show control the_ctrl of bg the_bg
 unlock screen
end all_but_one
Put this into the stackscript and use it whenever you like...
(I refer to the group as "background" so it will always be found ;-)
...
  all_but_one "name of group/background", "name of object to be shown"
...
Seems like an inconsistency (and I may be thinking  non-hierarchically 
again).
Yo, looks like ;-)

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.
SOME day i will travel the world an drink ALL of these drinks...
(I'm sure my liver will "deboard" somewhere near Palmdale :-D
Hope that helps...

Regards,
Barry
Best from germany

Klaus Major
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