Andy's comments and positioning...

[Richard Gaskin]

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

>> What is the advantage of inserting backscript as opposed to just
>> start using? Aside of course from the difference that I can insert
>> script of any object as a backscript.
> 
> That's pretty much it. In a plugin, the natural place for the
> openStack handler is in the stack script, and if you start using the
> plugin stack, you need to put a little extra logic into the openStack
> handler to make sure it doesn't run every time any stack is opened
> (because it's going to be in the message path, if you start using
> it). Putting the library code in a button instead sidesteps the whole
> issue.

Alternatvely, for libraries you can put all UI-related stuff like openStack
handlers in the card script, safely outside the message path of other
stacks.

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