Hi Bob, You might want to checkout my Group Manager to help place and remove specific groups on specific cards:
http://blog.chipp.com/update-to-group-manager-plugin-for-livecode/ Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Aug 26, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I vaguely remember this being discussed before, but it was a long time ago. > > I make a lot of use of groups. Datagrids are of course groups in their own > right. All my data entry objects are actually a label grouped with a normal > field. It makes it easier for me to drag stuff around on a form. But I also > use groups as common backgrounds on my forms so that I do not have to copy > paste, recode each object or set behaviors, blah blah you get the picture. > > The problem now is that I want to place two groups on a particular card, but > when I go to Place Group, I find that every group ever created in my stack on > all my forms shows up there. I don't want that! I just want the groups that > will act as backgrounds to show up there. > > So now is there a property to set to control which groups are considered > "backgrounds" and which are just simple groupings of objects? I know about > the backgroundBehavior property, but this only affects whether or not new > cards will have the background automatically placed, not whether it shows up > in the Place Group menu. > > If there is not, then this will make a good Feature Request. One more custom > property maybe called backgroundObject or something would do the trick! I did > notice a very interesting thing: Datagrids are not showing up in the Place > Group menu! So there IS a way to do this?? > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
