How to click/drag an object

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Judy,

Here's one possibilty.

on mouseUp -- no need to keep the mousebutton pressed
   repeat until the mouseClick with messages
     set the loc of me to the mouseLoc
     wait 0 millisecs with messages
   end repeat
end mouseUp

Best,

Mark

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Op 13-mei-2008, om 0:29 heeft Judy Perry het volgende geschreven:

> Hi all,
>
> At the conference I asked Jacque about this and she gave me an idea
> but, of course, now that I'm back home and ready to work on it, I
> haven't the foggiest idea of how to proceed (sorry, Mark Wieder -- I
> also don't remember your solution, alas).
>
> What I need is for a user to be able to click on an object (say, a
> locked field), move the mouse to a destination container (say, a
> graphic rectangle), with the locked field following the cursor along
> the way,  and click to drop the locked field within the rectangle.
>
> I know I could use a mouseStillDown handler, but, as the user is a 7
> year old child, I'm not betting on that being successful.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Kindest thanks,
>
> Judy