mouse pointer hot spot is way off
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Sat Aug 15 18:37:28 EDT 2015
Didn’t work a when it came up again. I must have done something else.
> On Aug 15, 2015, at 4:12 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>
> I think I tried what you said. And afterward things are better.
>
> In the message box I put
> set the cursor to watch
> then
> set the cursor to arrow
>
> I went back to the editor and it was working right. Maybe I did something else, so I’ll have to see if this routine keeps working when this comes up. It is easy to become superstitious.
>
> Now what I want is a recipe to make this happen so I can report it and run more tests on the workaround. If it is a workaround.
>
> Dar
>
>
>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> makes me wonder.. There are several ways the cursor can change shape while
>> in use. I wonder if the ball gets dropped somewhere along the way. I've
>> seen my cursor get stuck occasionally in the "pane resize" mode, though I
>> can't reliably reproduce it. When this occurs its nearly always in the
>> editor. (mainly because the editor has panes to resize?)
>>
>> It might not hurt to set the mousecursor to something else, then revert it
>> to standard and see if the problem resolves. If it does, at least its a
>> piece of information. (The hotspot for a cursor would change based on
>> cursor shape, and if the hotspot doesn't update on change for some reason,
>> that would account for the issue)
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn’t feel like a 3rd party mouse issue to me, but that is only
>>> because the problem is limited to LiveCode stack content. (I have a
>>> Macally EcoMouse hooked up at the moment.)
>>>
>>> This occurs in the content of some LiveCode windows. I don’t think I’ve
>>> ever seen it outside of that. It most often shows up in the editor, but
>>> I’ve seen it in a stack I’m creating. Such a stack might have buttons,
>>> fields and option menus on it.
>>>
>>> It doesn’t feel like an IDE thing to me, but I hope it is. That is, I
>>> don’t want to see this in a standalone. Maybe the IDE sometimes uses or
>>> modifies a cursor image?
>>>
>>> I’m not now working on cursors or image hotspots or Windows menus or
>>> anything like that, so I don’t think it is my code that is doing anything.
>>>
>>> This happened on Mavericks and then on the same machine upgraded to
>>> Yosemite.
>>>
>>> I am not sure, but I think one time i had to restart OS X. I have trouble
>>> believing that. However it might be a Gatsby Bug, involving both LiveCode
>>> and OS X. (I made up that term. In The Great Gatsby, a lady says
>>> accidents occur when two bad drivers enter the same intersection.)
>>>
>>> Dar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 9:58 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On August 15, 2015 9:58:45 AM CDT, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Very often the hot spot is off, usually about 50-100 pixels high, for
>>>>> one
>>>>>> or more windows in the IDE. I usually notice it in the editor where
>>>>> it is
>>>>>> off by 3 lines. Almost always it is just vertical.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I see this on a regular basis in 7.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't seen it yet. Are those who have seen it using a third-party
>>> mouse?
>>>> --
>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>>
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