Re: UI design problem
> tbodine wrote: > > I'm using the mouseStillDown message to make either the text or image > follow the mouse until released. Glad you solved it. Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
Thanks Jim. Jim Lambert wrote > Presumably text in the field is editable by the user. > Therefore the field text cannot be locked and mousedowns will be used for > text selection rather than grabbing of the entire field, correct? > > Is the field user resizable? A right-click toggles the text field between being editable-text or a movable block of text, but there are no resize handles on the text field. The image, however, has resize handles. When text and image overlap, I use the mousechar to figure out the user's intent. (If the user clicked on blank space, I treat that as an image click and pass the click through to the image control to make it movable. If the user clicked on headline text or the space between words, then the text block becomes movable.) I narrowed my original issue down to this: "grab" doesn't work for a mousedown that is passed through to another object. So I bailed on "grab" and I'm using the mouseStillDown message to make either the text or image follow the mouse until released. Spent way to much time on this! Thanks to all for your suggestions. Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829p4712846.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
Food for thought. Presumably text in the field is editable by the user. Therefore the field text cannot be locked and mousedowns will be used for text selection rather than grabbing of the entire field, correct? Is the field user resizable? If so, do you present the user with dotted border and resize handles? Could clicking on the field’s (or image’s) border trigger the grab rather than a click within its content area? Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:04 PM, tbodine via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote > > pass mousedown > > Err, no I didn't :) But my though would be after pasting, to move the image control (slider, group, whatever) to the top level, and to hide it while printing. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
ahhh how do you know if the user wants to move the image or the text? maybe use a modifier key to help you differentiate between what the user wants to grab. if controlKey() is down then ... or maybe give a hotkey to select either text or image. and maybe a red border around the selection while its selected so that the user knows what is selected? On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 5:04 PM, tbodine via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote > > pass mousedown > > "Pass mousedown" doesn't work here. (Message does not travel down to the > image control below the field.) > I used a send "mousedown" which does travel through, but what doesn't work > then is the "grab image 'blah'" line in the mousedown handler attached to > the image. The same mousedown handler works fine to grab the image when I > click directly on the image control. > > Tom > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution. > 278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829p4712832.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- *Tom Glod* CEO @ *MakeShyft R.D.A* - www.makeshyft.com Developer of *U.M.P* - www.IamUMP.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
The message would pass up the message path, to the group that owns both targets. That is where you would place the script to decide which object to move. The following code will help you know which object was clicked: Put word 1 of the target into tObjectType If tObjectType = "field" then -- do whatever you want with the field Else if tObjectType = "image" then -- do whatever with the image End if Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2017, at 5:04 PM, tbodine via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote >> pass mousedown > > "Pass mousedown" doesn't work here. (Message does not travel down to the > image control below the field.) > I used a send "mousedown" which does travel through, but what doesn't work > then is the "grab image 'blah'" line in the mousedown handler attached to > the image. The same mousedown handler works fine to grab the image when I > click directly on the image control. > > Tom > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829p4712832.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote > pass mousedown "Pass mousedown" doesn't work here. (Message does not travel down to the image control below the field.) I used a send "mousedown" which does travel through, but what doesn't work then is the "grab image 'blah'" line in the mousedown handler attached to the image. The same mousedown handler works fine to grab the image when I click directly on the image control. Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829p4712832.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: UI design problem
the solution is simple . look up how to pass messages, it is easy and made for in situations such as this. pass mousedown On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:52 PM, tbodine via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Livecoders. > > I am hoping you'll have some ideas for solving a UI design/coding problem. > My app lets users create simple presentation screens, one per card. The > user > can import a picture and add a headline (text field) to the card. And > since > the user will sometimes want the text to be over the image, the text field > is always the top layer. > > The problem is the text field often blocks the user from grabbing and > moving > the image control below. (Both the field and image are meant to be > movable.) > > My many attempts to solve this have wandered into "rat's nest" territory, > so > I'm hoping some of you will know a simple way to pass a mousedown from a > text field to an image control. > > Thanks! > Tom B. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution. > 278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- *Tom Glod* CEO @ *MakeShyft R.D.A* - www.makeshyft.com Developer of *U.M.P* - www.IamUMP.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
UI design problem
Hi Livecoders. I am hoping you'll have some ideas for solving a UI design/coding problem. My app lets users create simple presentation screens, one per card. The user can import a picture and add a headline (text field) to the card. And since the user will sometimes want the text to be over the image, the text field is always the top layer. The problem is the text field often blocks the user from grabbing and moving the image control below. (Both the field and image are meant to be movable.) My many attempts to solve this have wandered into "rat's nest" territory, so I'm hoping some of you will know a simple way to pass a mousedown from a text field to an image control. Thanks! Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/UI-design-problem-tp4712829.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
