XY

Nelson Zink zink at newmex.com
Fri Jan 25 14:22:01 EST 2002


Tereza,

> To avoid bottling up the engine servicing your loop:
> 
> on mouseMove mX, mY
> put format( "horz: %d  vert: %d", mX, mY )
> end mouseMove 
> 
> Scott Raney has told us in the past that "repeat until the mouseClick" is
> not a good idea because it bolixes up the event handling in the engine. I've
> found that mouseMove works wonderfully in situations where you'd be tempted
> to use "repeat until the mouse is up" or similar loops.

While mousemove seems straight forward, how would one go about turning it on
and off as might be needed in the "XY function"?

Nelson




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