penDownEvent

[Fawcett, Mitch]

I know what I'm trying to do is elementary, but I'm stuck.  I want my app to
detect a pen down event when the user taps within the boundary of a table.
But I want the table to also respond by highlighting the selection and
storing the text of the table item in a string.

I have some code in my form handler to detect the tap, but it eats the tap. 

By the way, I haven't been able to get onto the Massena news server today
(3/30/99).  Could be just me and my funky pc however.

static Boolean MainFormHandleEvent(EventPtr event) 
{
   Boolean handled = false;

   switch (event->eType) 
   {
        case penDownEvent:
           // Did the pen tap within tblSel's boundaries?
           if ((event->screenX > SEL_LEFT) && (event->screenX < SEL_LEFT +
SEL_WIDTH) \
                && (event->screenY > SEL_TOP) && (event->screenY < SEL_TOP +
SEL_HEIGHT)) 
                {
                   FrmCustomAlert(MyAlert, gsFlag1 , gsFlag2, gsFlag3); //
THIS ALERT EXECUTES.
                   gboTableTapped = true;  // set flag (global)
                 handled = false;  // need to process events triggered by
the pendown.
                 break;
                }

      case tblSelectEvent:  // Clicked on a table
         if (event->data.tblEnter.tableID == tblSel) 
           {
                if (gboTableTapped == true)
                {
                   // do some stuff... like store the item text in a string.
                   FrmCustomAlert(MyAlert, gsFlag1, gsFlag2, gsFlag3); //
THIS NEVER EXECUTES.
                }
                handled = true;
                break;
           }
        }
}

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// Mitch