bigger cursors

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Nov 23 15:52:44 EST 2004


On 11/23/04 2:33 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

 > On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
 >
 >> On 11/23/04 11:23 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
 >>
 >>> When dragging from one field to another I wanted to use the
 >>> dragEnter/dragLeave handlers to handle visual cues of fields that the
 >>> user could drop data on.  The problem is that you can't get a palette
 >>> to follow the pointer between Revolution windows this way.
 >>
 >>
 >> Are you translating the mouseloc to globalLoc? Seems like that should
 >> work.
 >
 >
 > Yes.  The problem if you start a drag by setting the dragData in a
 > mousedown then mouseMove and dragMove aren't sent once the pointer
 > leaves a stack window.  If you don't start a drag then you can use
 > mouseMove without a problem.  So your palette that is supposed to follow
 > the pointer stops moving until the pointer enters a Revolution window
 > again.
 >
 >

There has to be a way to do it, since the tool palette does it. I 
haven't looked at those scripts yet, but you might want to. I understand 
it is a pretty clever hack.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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