Once the mouse pointer position hits a screen border, further attempts to move in that direction do not generate mouseMove events. For example, put the pointer in the top left corner, and once you get (0,0), no more events are generated. If you put the pointer on a border and wiggle it along that border, the changes in the other axis do generate events, but that doesn't really help me.
I do not know what is happening at the AIR runtime/OS/driver level, but the mouse and joystick have the same behavior at the application level. Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: AIR app, need MouseMove events NOT bounded by screen If the app is fullscreen, how can you miss any mousemoves? Does the joystick continue to send events the AIR and the mouseMove doesn't get sent or is it that the mouseMove doesn't have different coordinates? Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc. <http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs. <http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui> adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: AIR app, need MouseMove events NOT bounded by screen Thanks, but my issue is that the AIR app is full screen. And AIR does not provide any way to set the system cursor(mouse pointer) position. I think I have an interim solution that notes when the mouse position reaches a boundary and sends a message to the socket server which calls an OS level program to reset the cursor position. As hoped, AIR recognizes this action and the next mouse move begins at the reset position. I still have some wrinkles to work out but I think this will keep us going until we figure out something better. Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Resa Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: AIR app, need MouseMove events NOT bounded by screen Do I understand correctly that you want to track when the mouse cursor/joystick leaves the Air App window? I don't see why you shouldn't be able to reset the x & y coordinates when they go off of the main application window. Not that logic always has anything to do with it. This is another one of those things that should be a given. Maybe this will help: http://nexus. <http://nexus.zteo.com/2008/11/02/flex-how-i-worked-around-mouse_outs-ineffi ciencies/> zteo.com/2008/11/02/flex-how-i-worked-around-mouse_outs-inefficiencies/ --- In flexcod...@yahoogro <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tr...@...> wrote: > > This AIR app is to be embedded in a consumer electronics product. It is a transparent UI that indirectly controls an underlying map application by sending messages via sockets. > > The product actually has a joystick and not a mouse and one requirement is that moving the joystick will cause the map to pan. > > In development, using a real mouse, when the mouse pointer hits a screen boundary, MouseMove events are no longer dispatched in that direction. In a corner, all events cease. This is causing me problems with continuing to send messages to the application to continue panning. > > I am hoping the joystick will behave differently, but am also looking for any other suggestions. I have considered using a timer to send repeated increments (the back-end app only needs position deltas), but I haven't figured out how to stop that. > > As far as I can tell, there is no way to set the position of the system cursor. If I could reset the mouse x,y to some positive values when it approached an edge, that would work as well. > > Is there anyway I can get "deeper" into the mouse event? If I could get a generic "moving" event, that would also suffice. > > Any thoughts? > > Tracy Spratt >
