Best Practice: Prevent Substacks from Triggering Main Stack Scripts

[Richard Gaskin]

Brahmanathaswami wrote:

> "it depends"
>
> got it... for me it's not about protecting anything..
>
> it's about..eg.
>
> on resizestack x,y
>    set the rect of some grc to the rect of this card
> # and other tricks here  relating to dynamic geometry changes...
> end resize stack
>
> This gets triggered by a substack that does not have those controlled.
>
> How do you do this in real code
>
> on resizestack x,y
>   if this stack is not the stack that this handler resides in then
>     do nothing
> else
>    set the rect of some grc to the rect of this card
> # and other tricks here  relating to dynamic geometry changes...
>    end if
> end resizestack

If the mainstack is a single card, just put the handler in the card script.

If the mainstack has multiple cards, put the handler in a common group 
script.

If neither of those are viable in your setup, you could add a check to 
make sure the long name of "me" is in the long ID of the target.

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