Grande Dame Jacque, > Jacque wrote > ...The system is already too large and the messaging too complex to tinker > with at this late stage ...
Just let me add the following for all who reads this later on and are now a bit frustrated because we have learned a lot in this discussion. And just now you bring in criteria never mentioned before with this problem (rating indirectly all contributions until now as "garbage"): > Jacque wrote > ... And I was just curious if there was a quick, self-contained trick that > would allow sharing the group ... This sounds as if there was no. There was one: The handler preopenCard suggested by Mark. The only thing to talk about is whether to put this in a frontscript or just put it in the group's script only. > Jacque wrote: > ... Due to this particular setup, inserting (even more) scripts into front or > back, or placing a group on every card whether it needs it or not, isn't > practical ... You know this and I insist on writing this down for 'beginners': The script of a shared backGround button hasn't to be placed in the backscript. It's by default inserted past card and stack. Every single background group gets each message sent to a card (even mouseDown) if it's passed by card and stack. And placing a group on every card is *once* a repeat loop of 3 lines and one line of 'checking' in the first line of the group's preopenCard handler to hide or show it or "pass preopenCard". In TOTAL: Typing effort < 2 minutes. Difference in size for use on one card and use on 1000 cards in total < 2 KByte. We know you are stressed and the following is not only from this reason not meant as an affront against you. It's simply a defence for other solutions presented here, especially Mark's (mine is a simple variant of) and Mat's (we learned from that 'focus' is *the* first message), that ARE more or less self-contained solutions or easily convertible to such. Take this advice from an old man: Please be cautious with your direct or indirect "rating": Your assessments have highest weight in the community. Don't make them careless. I really love your contributions on other webpages, here and in the forum. And your scripts are a source of pure gold to digg from. Thank you VERY much for that. Respectfully and kind regards, Hermann _______________________________________________ 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
