More drawing tool woes: no mouseDown or mouseUp sent?

[MisterX]

There are plenty of ways this should work...

a timed message sent every x milliseconds from a frontscripted palette or
hidden script should be able to intercept your information every 10th of a
second and be unintrusive (while the mouse is up)...

im pretty sure it should work... 
The palette and your script could interact via a global.

This is a mix of how my resizeNO2 and HotKeyNO2 stacks work...

It only become intrussive if you catch events too often or if you try to get
too much information...

cheers
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:13
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: More drawing tool woes: no mouseDown or mouseUp sent?
> 
> 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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