Mouse messages while down

[Jerry Daniels]

Stephen,

The flicker we used to see was related, i believe, to a mouseWithin  
message gone bad.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

Makers of Galaxy 1.5
http://www.daniels-mara.com/new_in_galaxy_1_5.htm



On Mar 18, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
>>
>>> 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."
>
> -- 
>
>
> stephen barncard
> s a n  f r a n c i s c o
> - - -  - - - - - - - - -
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>