Messages sent while mouse is down?

[Mike Bonner]

accidental send before complete. *sigh*

on mousemove
   put 1 & cr & 2 into objectList -- just using control number for the
quick example
   if the mouse is down then
      repeat for each line tLine  in objectList
         if within(control tLine,the mouseloc) then
            put tLine into tResult
            exit repeat
         end if
      end repeat
   end if
   if tResult is not empty then
      put tResult
   else
      put "no result"
   end if
end mousemove

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> mousemove works.  It does appear that "mousecontrol" doesn't fire when the
> mouse is down so that is out.
>
> You can also use "within" which is pretty fast.
>
> Have a variable with a list of the objects you wish to check against (or
> array, or whatever)
> on mousemove
>
> if the mouse is down then
>
> repeat for each line tLine  in objectList
>
> if within(tLine,the mouseloc) then
> put tLine into tResult
>  exit repeat
> end repeat
>
> end if
> if tResult
> end mousemove
>
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I miss the Zynga "Pathwords" game on Facebook, so for my own amusement
>> I'm trying to recreate it in Livecode.
>>
>> For those who don't know the game, it had a solid screenful of
>> Scrabble-like lettered tiles. Click and drag the mouse through adjacent
>> letters to make words.
>>
>> Without clicking, simply moving the mouse through the tiles (fields)
>> triggers mouseenter, mouseleave, etc. which makes it easy to pick up the
>> letters.
>>
>> But when the mouse is down, it seems mouseloc() is the only thing I can
>> get. Using a variable what has all the field rectangles, I can use the
>> mouseloc() to ultimately identify the field under the pointer, but it's too
>> slow...
>>
>> Does a moving mouse with the button down trigger any other messages
>> besides mouseloc()?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
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