How To Send Before?

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Monte:

I don't think there was ever any question about this.

A question arises when using the before/after type handlers.

With standard mouse events, you can send the same type of event message to
another control.
 send "mouseUp" to button 3

With the before/after implementations, it doesn't seem possible to do
this.  You can send a custom message, of course, but apparently not a
built-in event message at the same level of the message hierarchy (before
or after).

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, I was just asking the
question of whether it was possible.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 11/19/13 5:18 PM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:

>
>On 11/11/2013, at 11:21 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>> The problem with the above is a standard mouseDown is sent; mouseDown is
>> not sent before.
>> There doesn't seem to by any way to dispatch or send before.
>
>I just tested this and the following appears to work fine:
>
>dispatch "message" to me
>
>This triggers before and after handlers and also gives the child script a
>chance to handle the actual message. Before and after are cooler than I
>thought... this means you can hook custom functionality onto any command
>that a child object uses even with lock messages on.
>
>Just to clarify the message must go via the child in order for the parent
>to get a chance to handle it in a before/after script.
>
>Cheers
>
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