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insert script of button "MessageTraps: into front

SparkOut wrote:also it would be worth understanding about the message path and how a handler reference travels.
There's an article here http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/arti ... _path.html by Richard Gaskin (our resident FourthWorld here) which should help you understand the various concepts.

FourthWorld wrote:Maybe you're the first to have read it.

on mouseUp
answer "hello"
end mouseUp

insert script of "button1" of "card1" into back

billworld wrote:After reading up on "insert script" I'm still not getting it. For example, I'm not getting how to reference the following script from multiple diff. images/icons located throughout my app.

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on mouseUp
   put name of target into myGroup
   set the itemdelimiter to quote
   put item 2 of myGroup into myGroup

   if visible of grp myGroup is true then
      set visible of grp myGroup to false
      else set visible of grp myGroup to true

    set layer of grp myGroup to top
end mouseUp

on mouseEnter
    set blendlevel of target to 80
end mouseEnter

on mouseLeave
    set blendlevel of target to 0
end mouseLeave

Assuming this script is located in button1 on card1 and I want to reference it from image1 on card2, when I use the following code as the script for image1 nothing happens when I click on image1 in run mode.

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insert the script of btn "button1" of card "card1" into back

Logic (and my understanding of the docs) is telling me this should work, but it's not. I realize I'm missing something fundamental here. Please help!

Thanks

Bill

Summary: 
Sends a message to an object. 

Mark wrote:Hi Bill,

I think you want to use the send command instead of the insert command.

Best,

Mark

bn wrote:Hi Bill,

put

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on mouseEnter
    put the long name of the target into tTarget
    if tTarget contains "image" or tTarget contains "group" then
        set blendlevel of tTarget to 80
    end if
end mouseEnter

on mouseLeave
    put the long name of the target into tTarget
    if tTarget contains "image" or tTarget contains "group" then
        set blendlevel of tTarget to 0 
    end if
end mouseLeave

into your stack script and try with a simple stack and 2 images and 2 cards,
No need to make a front / back script, which I find hard to manage anyways. In your script you process plain events when they happen, no need to catch them in a front script. And if you put the script at the stack level, no need for a back script.

for your group script, if you hide your group, as in your script, it will never show up again since it never gets the mouseUp needed.
add this to the stack script to your test stack

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on mouseUp
    put the long name of the target into tTargetName
    if tTargetName contains "button" then
        if visible of tTargetName is true then 
            set visible of tTargetName to false 
        else set visible of tTargetName to true 
    end if
end mouseUp 

and put a button or two on a card. This works once (as long as the button has no mouseUp code or the button passes the mouseUp event). The button once hidden will not get a mouseUp event, since it is hidden. The same of course goes for groups.
if you want to go for the groups then you have to watch, who gets the message, e.g. the mouseUp. Is it the group or an image in the group, you would have to track for that. That is why I look for the long name, then a group would be in the long name, but if you look for the name of the target and the actual target is an image although member of a group you would not find out from the name of the target
If I got you right this should give you some clues.
cheers
bernd