Showing linkText on mouse over

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 10:49 AM -0700 2/24/2006, Devin Asay wrote:
>on mouseWithin
>   if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin ## interrupt this 
>handler to pay attention to the mouse.
>   if the textStyle of the mouseText contains "link" then
>     put the linkText of the mouseText into fld "status"
>   else
>     put empty into fld "status"
>   end if
>end mouseWithin
>
>It seems to be working reliably now. Anybody know of any reason why 
>this approach might be a bad idea? Sort of like how we've been 
>encouraged not to use things like 'wait until the mouseClick'?

It shouldn't be a problem the way you're using it here. The mouse 
function can eat CPU if it's being polled - called repeatedly, as in 
"wait until the mouse is down" or "repeat until the mouse is up" or 
similar - but here you're only calling it once per round of the 
handler. I think even Scott would approve. ;-)
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