More drawing tool woes: no mouseDown or mouseUp sent?

[Richard Gaskin]

MisterX wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Can't you set up either 
> 
> A frontscript that traps mousedown and up before your controls...
> this front scripts remembers where that happened and passes it or
> treats the value...

That one won't work, because there is not message to trap at any level 
if the pointer tool is active. :(

> An alternative is to have a card framework that does all the events instead
> of having the controls in the card relay the events. It would give you more
> control i believe - not the best way to program rev though, it's still
> "legal!"

Polling?  I've been doing waaaay to much polling to work around other 
messaging anomalies; kinda hate to add more overhead like that if I 
could avoid it.  But indeed, perhaps I can't.....


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