In my case, I've been waiting years for something like chained behaviors. I create a lot of custom controls, and the limit of a single behavior per control was not enough.
At the control level, I use functions and commands are exclusive to a single control. But at a higher level, I want a set of common functions/commands that can be used by multiple controls, so I don't have to maintain the same handlers in multiple behaviors. Until now, the only way to get this work was using front/backScripts or a library stack. But in all these cases the common functions/commands would be available to every LiveCode object and could be called by accident or potentially affect controls that weren't mine. Using chained behaviors allows you to keep handlers localized to only the controls that use them. I have built a system that uses one behavior for a wide range of controls using switch statements, and the higher the number of controls you have to support, the more complex and messier the code gets. Chained behaviors gives you another option to modularize your code. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/12/13 10:04 AM, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >Has anyone got any real world examples of the benefits of the new chained >behaviors feature? > >I just read the latest newsletter article about them and while I >understand >the concept, I didn't see benefit in the example scenario over a single >behavior with some common logic and a switch statement to handle the logic >specific to each "sprite". > > >Pete >lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >_______________________________________________ >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
