DX: Any way to set child?

Not that i have seen.. its like there is a way from the standard menu to set the z-order to on-top, but not in the code. Can we get a list of things for the next release???

Bummer...that's frustrating. Looks like I'll have to create two sets of objects; children and not children, which is extremely impractical for what I want to do.  ;p 

sViz, I am not sure as to what you are asking. There is a way to set parent/child relationships in DX. If you ask what I am thinking, it is easy. Elaborate on it a little.

I think he wants to set a parent to a child or some such thing through a gadget/widget script live .. not in the builder.

Correct.

Found a work around....woot! I'll post a streamlined version of the fix as soon as possible.

Isn't there a setParent method?

Cool.. cant wait to see. sounds like something we need to add to the DesktopX.info Site!

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I knew that! Dagnabit!

i did the same thing on the skincast.. i should never assume.. sorry sViz!

Was going to suggest the parent option last night but, there are a few things I've encountered using it.

If your cloned object isn't contained and you want to make it a contained child then you must remember to move it to within the dimensions of the container.

No worries, DA (and Zubaz), at least you pronounced my nick right.


I guess I should clarify that setting or assigning a parent wasn't the problem. I can do that. The specific problem was setting object.child = "yes" or object.child = "no". The distinction was important because, as you know, that allows/disallows the child object to be visible outside the parent's boundaries.




I'll be sure to put it in the tutorial section on the site, because it requires a good deal of explaining.




For what it's worth:

My idea was, on dragfinish, depending on where I dropped an object, it would either:

1. create a new object, which was not a child

2. if I drop it on another object it would automatically set the parent and make it a child.


To create the object as a child I had to clone a template object which was already a child of another object and then just change the parent (I did this before with my eZbrowser). The problem was making it not a child after cloning.

I could set the parent to nothing but then, checking its properties, it was still set to child = "yes". So it was a child of nothing and it wasn't visible!

After fuddling around I decided to clone the clone again and see what happens....it worked. The 2nd clone, without a parent, was automatically set to child = "no"


Crazy, huh? Well, all in a day's work.

The tut on this is now up on DesktopX.info....HERE

You got it. Thanks for letting us know.