Rectangle Problem

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Apr 5 17:05:09 EDT 2005


>On 4/5/05 12:51 PM, "David Burgun" <dburgun at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  On a card I have a Rectangle Object called "BoundingRect". This
>>  object has a script attached to it that contains the following
>>  handlers:
>>
>>    mouseEnter, mouseLeave, mouseDown, mouseStillDown and mouseUp to
>>  track the position of the mouse and allow the user to draw
>>  rectangles, e.g. when the user mouseDown's and then moves the mouse,
>>  a rectangle graphic is created and resized until the mouse is
>>  released. This works just fine.
>>
>>  Now I would like to be able to select a rectangle that has already
>>  been created and allow the user to modify it's size. In fact what I
>>  would like is the exact same functionality as the RunRev IDE
>>  provides, e.g. when the user clicks in the rect I'd like the grow
>>  boxes to appear and allow the user to resize the box.
>>
>>  Is there any easy way to get this functionality into my stack?
>
>Dave, is there any reason you're not using the built in functionality of Rev

On big reason, I don't know how to do it?

>- i.e. to set the tool to the rectangle tool and then after they finish
>drawing to switch to the pointer tool?

Not sure what you mean? Exactly what code do I use and which handler 
do I use? Oh and which object should I attach the script to?

Thanks in Advance
Dave



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