At 6:07 AM -0800 2/2/01, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>The mouseMove message is exactly what I'm looking for as a solution to
>something I'm working on, but with one drawback for my needs: it is only
>sent when the mouse moves inside of a MetaCard window; once outside, the
>message is no longer sent.
>
>Any know a native MetaTalk way to trap mouse movement anywhere on the
>screen, even outside of MC windows, so long as MC is in front?
Using "send" might work. For example, in a card script:
local sHaveFocus
on mouseMove x,y
put x & "," & y
end mouseMove
on mouseLeave
put true into sHaveFocus
send "exMouseMove" to me in 10 milliseconds
end mouseLeave
on exMouseMove
put the mouseLoc into tPoint
if (not within(me, tPoint)) and sHaveFocus then
put tPoint
send "exMouseMove" to me in 10 milliseconds
end if
end exMouseMove
on suspendStack
put false into sHaveFocus
end suspendStack
If this doesn't do what you want, I'm sure some variation of "send"
will do the trick.
BTW, mouseMove does get sent when the mouse is outside the window if
the mouse is down. It gets sent to the object where the mouseDown
occurred.
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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