Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Smith
Thanks Jacque and Tim, its wonderful having you guys around to discuss these issues with. -- Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Creating-a-reusable-object-Part-2-tp4653520p4653576.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/8/12 11:37 PM, Mark Smith wrote: I haven't played with back scripts so I'm not sure how I would get that working (or how different it would be from just having a stack script... but feel free to enlighten me... please!) Backscripts and frontscripts are just scripts in the message hierarch

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-09 Thread Timothy Bleiler
Hi Mark, Glad you found my previous suggestions helpful. Let me offer something else for you to think about. I agree with Jacqueline that if all you need to do is handle the resizeStack message, then the best approach is to catch the message at the stack level or the backscripts level. Th

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Smith
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Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Smith
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Re: Creating a reusable object

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Smith
ically show up. I went back to replay it and Kevins exact words when creating a background group were "We don't want to reuse this on multiple cards so I'm going to turn off the shared group property". Anyway, you got me over the hump. Thank you -- Mark -- View this mess

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/8/12 7:52 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I will try and simplify my question. If I want to create an object that responds to messages, but does not automatically appear on each new card how would I do that? I'd insert a script into back. That will catch messages from anywhere and doesn't need to

Re: Creating a reusable object

2012-08-08 Thread Timothy Bleiler
On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I make a new card. The graphic shows up (shouldn't have if I understand "shared group" correctly). So, I try and delete the object from the second card and it deletes it from the first card too. So, looks like I have a shared object that behave

Creating a reusable object - Part 2

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Smith
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Creating a reusable object

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Smith
to messages. Where did I screw up? Have tried this a few times and always get the same result. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Creating-a-reusable-object-tp4653514.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.co