messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

[Terry Judd]

>Terry's suggested use of the idle handler will probably draw another 
>response about 'avoid idle" but there are times like these when it 
>is useful. What is needed is a better way to handle it. Under 
>HyperCard I wrote a set of XCMDs/XFCNs to manage a "task space" 
>efficiently and make it easy to add and remove tasks without the 
>fiddles and inefficiency which grow when you try to script "on 
>idle". I am busy at work at the moment but should be able to post 
>some scripts this evening for doing it directly in Rev. 
>Incidentally, "send message in <N ms>" is very useful but there are 
>times when you just want to act in time complementary to the user's 
>activity, rather than forcing the action at a given time, and idle 
>can be useful for this if used sparingly. So, Michael, Terry's 
>suggestion is good and if you'll give me a few hours I hope to give 
>you a better way of doing it.
>

Or you could use a repeat loop in a mouseDown handler...