contextual menu cursor image

[Stephen Barncard]

Richard,
actually it can be done without polling, this is how I'm controlling 
the cursor, with a script in a locked field. works for my particular 
case....ymmv...
And I was wrong... there's the image I want as a standard cursor in 
Rev  id 82... there all the time. 'forest for the trees...'.

local tempCurse

ON mouseWithin
          cursorHandler
END mouseWithin

ON cursorHandler     
          SWITCH
                   CASE the optionkey is "down"
                            put the defaultcursor into tempCurse
                            set the cursor to 112913 --(renumbered from 82)
                            set the lockcursor to true
                            break
                   CASE the controlkey is "down"
                            put the defaultcursor into tempCurse
                            set the cursor to 112912
                            set the lockcursor to true
                            break
                   DEFAULT
                            set the cursor to tempCurse
                            set the lockcursor to false
          END SWITCH
END cursorHandler

ON mouseLeave
          if tempCurse is not empty
then
  set the cursor to tempCurse
          set the lockcursor to false
end if
END mouseLeave



re: I was just at that Apple page just an  hour ago.




>Stephen Barncard wrote:
>>Anyone out there have a little .png file with the 16x16 'contextual 
>>menu' image?
>>
>>THis is the one with a little menu (looks like a ladder) to the 
>>right of a standard arrow and it is not a standard Rev cursor (but 
>>a standard carbon cursor in osx.)
>
>Weird:  Apple doesn't use it themselves (at least not in their most 
>widely used app, the Finder, or in Preview, Stickies, or iMovie), 
>but they do spec it here:
>
><http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGCursors/chapter_15_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002724-TPXREF101>
>
>
>If we had a message notifying us when the Control key is down 
>without another key or a mouseDown I'd probably start using it.  I 
>guess in the meantime we'd have to poll for that, no?
>
>Maybe Apple's onto something in blowing that off that part of their 
>own spec. ;)
>
>--
>  Richard Gaskin

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stephen barncard
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