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I am building an application that is going to use a number of different control types all with the same behavior script. One of the scripts in the behavior script will be "initialise". How would you recommend I approach the problem of sending the "initialise" message to only those controls that use the behavior script. My initial thoughts are:
1) Use a manual list : simple but a bit of a kludge, I'd rather do better.

2) Look through all the controls on the UI stack and send the message to ones that meet a criteria. I suppose my question is what criteria? For example is it possible to select objects based on the name of their associated behavior button? Should I use a custom property in each control.

Any thoughts?

Hi Simon,

I would loop through ALL objects and use a "try" structure to get rid or errors

Something like this: Best

Klaus

Thanks Klaus,

I will give it a go.

FWIW, if the objects in question are groups you could use the openControl or preOpenControl messages.

Hi.

You already answered your question. The criterion you could use is the behavior property itself, which takes the form of a long ID.

So loop through all the controls, and send the message if the behavior of the control is the long ID of the button containing the initialize script:

repeat with y = 1 to the number of controls
if the behavior of control y = yourLongID then send "initialize" to control y
end repeat

Craig Newman

Thanks Craig,

I thought it must be possible but I didn't know what the syntax would be.

A supplementary question: I am using a splash stack and this will be the stack that is compiled. The objects that need to receive the "initialise" message are on other stacks. I would like to have the initialise message sent when the user opens the application so I was wondering at what point are the other stacks available for use or to put it another way will I be able to issue the initialise message from the open stack handler of my splash stack?

Simon