[beginner] x,y coordinates in LiveCode

[Richard Gaskin]

Colin Holgate wrote:
 > I suggested. One slight difference is that I tested mine first,
 > and discovered that mousewithin doesn’t work as a card script,
 > at least not on its own. Reading the dictionary it seems that
 > a mousewithin handler has to be inside the object itself.

Coordinates are a good opportunity to take advantage of something we 
have in LiveCode that we only dreamed about in HC: mouseMove.

It's a good fit here because it's always sent when the mouse is in 
motion, and not sent when at rest which is nice since at those moments 
it's not needed.

on mouseMove x,y
    put "Object: "& the name of the target && the loc of the target &\
       cr&"Mouse: "& x,y
end mouseMove


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