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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?
- >
- >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
- >
- >To err is human, to dump the core takes genius!
- >
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