Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think you meant before. Groups with backgroundBehavior set to true receive the message before the card, if I am not mistaken. Bob S On Mar 2, 2015, at 13:33 , Paul Hibbert mailto:p...@livecode.org>> wrote: Because you set the backgroundBehavior of the "strange group" to true, it's effectiv

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoa! This may explain why in another app I was developing I inexplicably got handlers triggering twice. Bob S On Mar 3, 2015, at 11:16 , Peter Haworth mailto:p...@lcsql.com>> wrote: So not only do these messages go down to each child group but they also come back up again! In the above exam

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
AHAH! Again, I didn’t know that. I thought sharedBehavior and backgroundBehavior were synonyms. Bob S On Mar 3, 2015, at 09:34 , Michael Doub mailto:miked...@gmail.com>> wrote: To maintain compatibility with HC, the backgroundBehavior was introduced in an attempt to account for those cases w

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
May be my mind is too small, but if this is true, then Quantum Mechanics is flawed. But I have to wonder what the quantum definition of “at once” is. :-) Bob S On Mar 2, 2015, at 13:07 , stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: In quantum mechanics something can be in more than one

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-03 Thread Paul Hibbert
> > On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > So all that said, we might consider what you're seeing to be a bug. I think another big issue here is the lack of up-to-date documentation, and this helps to illustrate the depth of this problem. According to the dictionary 'sharedBeha

RE: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
Stephen, In #8 below does the message make it to the stack? Did you just leave the stack out for clarity in your example? Like... I am a card --> I am a strange group --> I am a stack Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- F

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
kground group is like a >> HC backGround, and is higher in the hierarchy (sorry, Jacque) than a card. >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Paul Hibbert >> To: How to use LiveCode >> Sent: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 4:

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-02 Thread Peter Haworth
ike a > HC backGround, and is higher in the hierarchy (sorry, Jacque) than a card. > > > Craig > > > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hibbert > To: How to use LiveCode > Sent: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 4:34 pm > Subject: Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode > >

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-02 Thread dunbarx
: Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode Because you set the backgroundBehavior of the "strange group" to true, it's effectively after the card in the message path. There's a good explanation and diagram in chapter 5.2.3 (p.127-9) of the user guide. HTH Paul > On Mar 2, 20

Re: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

2015-03-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
Because you set the backgroundBehavior of the "strange group" to true, it's effectively after the card in the message path. There's a good explanation and diagram in chapter 5.2.3 (p.127-9) of the user guide. HTH Paul > On Mar 2, 2015, at 1:07 PM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: > > In quantum mec