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- To contribute to the signal (and not the noise) here's a
- question I've been pondering. Has anyone come up with an
- effective way to "orphan" an object?
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- What I mean by this is taking an object that has a parent
- and sometime after the parent has done it's thing with the
- child, divorcing (if I can mix metaphores) that child,
- reverting the child to global coordinates and settings
- current to it's real settings while under the parent's
- influence. I could imagine great uses for such a function
- (a car loosing its bumper, etc.) and could have used it
- myself in my last project.
-
- What would also be interesting is if a another object
- could "adopt" the child and the child continue on with the
- relations of the new parent instead of its global settings.
-
- At first glance the best person to impliment this would be
- AH, but, someone with more time than I have may have come
- up with an AREXX program to do this. If so, it would be
- interesting to see how it was done.
-
- Christopher Schiller, Computer/Video Integrator
- Engineering Media Services, University of Illinois at Chicago
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- To err is human, to dump the core takes genius!
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