mouseStillDown - Problem for trapping the mouse btn number

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM, zryip theSlug <zryip.theslug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't trap the mouse button
> number in a mouseStillDown handler.
>
> local lmyLoop
>
> on mouseStillDown pMouseBtnNumber
>   add 1 to lmyLoop
>   put "Test "&&lmyLoop&&"Button pressed"&&pMouseBtnNumber into fld "Field"
> end mouseStillDown
>
> My pMouseBtnNumber remains desperately empty...


I haven't tried this, but I assume it is an error in the docs. It may
not be included for speed reasons.
One work-around would be to store the mouse button in a script local
on mouseDown. That way you could refer to it on every mouseStillDown
without having to poll it again.

Cheers,
Sarah