How do I get the object under the mouse when mouseRelease?

[J. Landman Gay]

Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> sorry, another newbee question
> 
> I want to realize my own drag and drop handlers with mouseDown,
> mouseRelease, etc. On mouseDown I get the underneath lying object with
> mousecontrol. How do I get the name of an object (image) under the mouse
> when releasing it, because mousecontrol is still the mouseDown object when
> releasing? I created a workaround with a repeat loop on mouseRelease to test
> for every image on my card, if the mouseloc is in the rectangle of image x.
> But I think there must be a more sophisticated and perfomant way in
> revolution?

Is there a reason you can't use the built-in drag and drop functions? 
Those will tell you what you want to know.

If you do have to use your own handlers, then you could scan all the 
objects when the mouse goes up:

on mouseUp
  put the mouseloc into tXY
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls
   if tXY is within the rect of control x then
     -- do what you need
     exit repeat
   end if
  end repeat
end mouseUp

But this way can be time-consuming if you have many controls. The 
built-in commands and functions are much better.

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