mouseControl

[Jerry Jensen]

Ah, I see. I would have guessed that would work too! 

On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:17 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> Jerry.
> 
> 
> Nothing to do with a message. I was testing the value of a function. Most other such things work:
> 
> 
> 
> on mouseUp
>  repeat until the mouseclick
>   put the mouseH & "," & the mouseV
>  end repeat
> end mouseUp
> This very nicely tracks the loc of the cursor. Always did. It is something about some functions. "wait with messages"
> has fixed things before, just not sure why. I guess it could be that some things take longer to process.
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 12:43 pm
> Subject: Re: mouseControl
> 
> 
> Because no new messages get noticed during execution of a handler unless there 
> is a wait . . . with messages.
> 
> On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:33 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Ken.
>> 
>> 
>> The wait thing worked. Don't know why it should. Thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> Craig Newman
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 11:59 am
>> Subject: Re: mouseControl
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:17 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry if this has been answered already. Possibly to me.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What is wrong with this:
>>> on mouseUp
>>> repeat until the mouseclick
>>>    put the mouseControl
>>> end repeat
>>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> Try "repeat until the mouse is down" … if that doesn't work, add in "wait 0 
>> milliseconds with messages" inside your repeat loop; you may need to give LC 
>> time to get the message to respond
>> 
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/	
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