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Subject: Re: Has anyone orphaned?
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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
