Re: and a new GM is born for everyone...

[David Burgun]

Hi,
The number of controls might require this in terms of speed (querying if the
script contains is long) - the agent also uses a cached index to speed this
up in the repeat loop though. I have also found that I use mostly templates
and thus limit the repeat search to just groups so scripts are more
dedicated or localized.
I handn't thought of looking in the script to see if a handler or 
function or whatever existed. Wow! That's so powerfull. Of course, I 
suppose someone *could* have already of used that name, so it might 
be better to prefix it with "MGM_" or something so that it is less 
likely to clash.

What are you worried about in terms of speed? If you said that the 
"doresize" (or whatever) was always near the start of the script then 
would this make a difference?

I do something similar to this in a Generic Arrow Resize Object I 
have created. The way I am trying to do it is to have an 
Initialization Handler in each control that sets a CustomProperty, in 
this case we could call it cpResizeHandler. The script would look 
something like this:

--
--  Called from openScipt or openCard
--
on Initialize()
put the number of controls into controlsmax
  repeat with x = 1 to controlsmax
      if "MGMInitianize" is in the script of control x then
       send "MGMInitialize" to control x
  end repeat
end
--
--  The in the Script of each Control
--
on MGMInitialize
if the script of me contains "MGMDoResize" then
  set cpResizeHandler to "MGMDoResize"
else
  set cpResizeHandler to "MGMDoResize"
end if
end
Then do the following in the resize stack command:
put this into your stack script...
<this>
on resizeStack
  MagicGM
  pass resizestack -- if you dont pass, the RevErrorDialog (RED) or other
stacks might not resize correctly although the RED still doesnt yet...
end resizeStack
on MagicGM
  put the number of controls into controlsmax
  repeat with x = 1 to controlsmax
    if  the  cpResizeHandler of control x is not empty then
      send the cpResizeHandler of control x
    end if
  end repeat
end MagicGM
</this ;>
(((***Question? What are <text> and </this ;> lines?***)))
This shoud speed it up at the expense of adding time to the openStack 
or openCard command. The advantage is that you don't have to change 
the Stack/Card Script you add a new control.

One question though. If the control does not contain an MGMInitialize 
handler, the Custom Property,  cpResizeHandler will not exist. Do I 
need a seperate test for his as in:

if exists  cpResizeHandler of control x then
   if  the  cpResizeHandler of control x is not empty then
      send the cpResizeHandler of control x
    end if
end if
Any suggestions/comments greatly appreciated.
All the Best
Dave






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