mouseEnter-Leave conundrum

[Devin Asay]

On May 14, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

>
> On May 14, 2007, at 1:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> on mouseLeave
>>  if the name of the target contains "graphic" then
>>   lock messages
>>   hide fld "myLabel"
>>  end if
>> end mouseLeave
>>
>> I'm not sure it's a bug though I agree it probably feels like one.
>
> Thanks, Jacque. That gets me part way there. The "thrashing" stops,  
> but I still get the undesired hiding of the label field when I move  
> the mouse over the part of the field that is also inside the  
> graphic. It also prevents a label from showing in an adjacent  
> graphic, if I move directly from one graphic to another, because  
> the messages are locked. Ergo, no mouseEnter message for the  
> adjacent object....

If I just add an unlock messages line after the hide fld it pretty  
much fixes it:

on mouseLeave
  if the name of the target contains "graphic" then
   lock messages
   hide fld "myLabel"
   unlock messages
  end if
end mouseLeave

The only problem left is a quick flash when I move between the  
graphic and the overlapping field. Annoying, but livable.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University