On Aug 6, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
While I'm not sure this can be characterized as a bug, I'd call it
a surprising feature. And it has a particularly intriguing problem
if you have multiple background groups. In that case, the
background groups live in layers, of course, each of which is the
effective size of the card. So the topmost background intercepts
all mouseUps (and presumably other such messages) that fall outside
the bounds of any object or other group on the card. I can see
where that might cause a programming dilemma or at least confusion.
I don't think it's necessary to avoid putting scripts in groups,
but it is necessary to be careful what messages you write scripts
for in the groups so that you can handle the flow of messages
properly.
I'm actually surprised to hear you, as a HyperCard user, say this,
i.e. that is a surprising feature. I may be wrong about this but I
had thought the background property was implemented in large part for
compatability with HyperCard. And while it's been years since I've
used HC, as I recall in HC, a click outside any other objects would
go through to the background which covered the entire card.
Personally, the feature that I found surprising when I started using
rev was that you could have more than one background.
Spence
James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN
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