Re: Moving canvas item's to new canvas not working

[The Surprises <thesurprises1 attbi com>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:48:43PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >moving a canvas item from one canvas to another, I would like to delete
> >the first item, create a new item in the new canvas, and have that new
> >item take over the button press/release event.  Is this possible?
> 
> yes, but you'll likely have no head left when you're done, because it
> will rise up and bite it off. seriously, thats a deeply ugly
> hack. don't do it.
> 
> --p

How would I go about doing it then?  I could merge all my seperate
canvas' into one, but then I'd have to handle all the
packing/resizing/etc myself which I really didn't want to have to do.