Deprecated mouse functions

Kevin Miller kevin at runrev.com
Fri Feb 22 07:27:23 EST 2002


On 21/2/02 9:53 pm, David Vaughan <drvaughan55 at mac.com> wrote:

> It is good to receive Scott's list which I have not seen published before,
> even including the newly un-deprecated (precated? apprecated?) key functions,
> but I also strongly support Siva's view. I think it an important part of the
> documentation that deprecated functions be mentioned as such in the Transcript
> Dictionary, and a reference given to possible alternatives. At present, the
> "See also" in the Dictionary entry for the deprecated mouseLoc makes no
> reference at all to the preferred mouseMove, nor does that for mouseH refer to
> mousemoveH, so how is anyone not already familiar with the language supposed
> to find the preferred functions, especially if they come from xTalk and are
> already comfortable with the wrong ways?

Indeed - recommendations on how to use these will be included.

Kevin

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