On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:

> Concerning the message path and objects, it also helps me to think about 
> where the highest object (the stack script being the lowest and last to 
> receive a message, barring back scripts) where shared code can be accessed by 
> the objects on a card or background that needs them. That is where I will put 
> the command or function. (Some will say this the other way around, but I am 
> thinking about a flow chart working top to bottom as the message progresses.) 

Interesting. I mostly visualize it the opposite way, with the buttons & fields 
on the lowest level and then the card, background, and stack scripts higher and 
higher, with the engine at the top catching everything not handled by scripts, 
and frontscripts before everything, and backscripts before the engine, and 
behaviors inserted in there sort of on the side. Either that or I see it as 
front to back, with buttons and fields in the front and the engine at the back. 
I suppose if you think in terms of flowcharts going from top to bottom makes 
sense, but somehow I got the other image in my mind at some point.

Funny how we get these images in our heads and often don't even think of 
talking about them. For instance, I visualize the months of the year in a 
counterclockwise circle, with summer at the top and fall to the left, followed 
by winter then spring climbing up on the right towards summer again. Why, I 
don't know. Probably dates back to age 3 or 4, I guess. My take on the message 
path doesn't go back that far, however.  :-)

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


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