Mouse messages while down

[Stephen Barncard]

Jerry, would this explain the 'flickering' that I've seen in your 
tooltips field in earlier versions of Galaxy? This would only happen 
when Galaxy was kept running for hours and days... Restarting Rev 
always fixed it.


>The "cursory" inspection that Galaxy 1.5 has done to detect what 
>object you're "over" came from Galaxy's "pinging"  or sending out 
>periodic messages constantly. Why not just use mouseMove? We pinged 
>so that Galaxy could also detect when you were above the title bar 
>of a stack and then report the stack name and path in the status 
>fields of Galaxy Bar. The mouseMove tracking would not report when 
>the pointer was in the title bar of a stack.
>
>
>Jerry Daniels
>
>Makers of Galaxy 1.5
>http://www.daniels-mara.com/new_in_galaxy_1_5.htm
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>On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
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>>Jerry figured it out a while ago -- Galaxy always shows the object 
>>name and path of the object it is hovering above. I think mousemove 
>>may be part of it.
>>
>>from the docs: "Sent periodically while the mouse button is being held down."

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stephen barncard
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