Trapping for mouseDown on the desktop on a Mac

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Or another "polling" thing, if this helps at all:



on mouseUp
   checkForMouseDown
end mouseUp


on checkForMouseDown
   if the mouse is down then
      answer "Mouse is down"
      exit to top
   end if
   --doSomeProcess
   checkForMouseDown
end checkForMouseDown


Now when you run this and click in the finder, LC butts in because of the dialog. But you can do something else less obtrusive.


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 13, 2013 12:49 pm
Subject: Re: Trapping for mouseDown on the desktop on a Mac


How about going into a polling mode, checking the dragData["files"] every second 
or so... it should start out empty, but as soon as the user starts to drag a 
file from the desktop, it should have something in it.

Just a thought,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software

> On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
> 
> Phil - thanks for the suggestion but I just tried it and no-can-do. For some 
reason, and this is a Mac-only behavior, when I mouseDown on the desktop I can't 
see any messages at all which are sent to Livecode.  The suspend message is sent 
if I mouseDown on another stack, but not on a file on the desktop or the desktop 
itself.
> 
> Let me know if anything else comes to mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ray
> 
>> On 10/12/2013 10:51 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
>> Have you tried using 'suspend' instead of 'mouseDown' and 'suspendStack'? 
Should work the same on both platforms (famous last words!).
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10/12/13 6:31 AM, Ray wrote:
>>> On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the current 
stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the suspendStack message.  I use 
this to create a field which then accepts dragDrops.  However, this is different 
on a Mac.  The current stack window on a Mac waits until the mouse comes up on a 
desktop click, thus defeating my scheme which creates the field to accept a 
dragDrop as soon as the mouse goes down on the desktop.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas anybody on how to trap for a mouse down on the desktop on a Mac?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ray
>>> LinkIt! Software
>>> 
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