Björnke von Gierke wrote:
A completely different way is to not use grab, but a repeat loop
("repeat until the mouse is up") in the mousedown handler, that set's
the location of your dragged object (can be multiple). Advantages are
very smooth animation, and more control about what is gonna happen
during the drag. The main disadvantage is a hellish processor load,
and the mouse is still down, prohibiting almost all mouse messages.
The difficulty with using "repeat until the mouse is up" is that it eats
up a lot of processor cycles with constant polling of the event queue:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-August/113401.html>
It's generally considered better practice to use these four handlers for
custom dragging operations:
mouseDown -- to set a flag
mouseMove -- checks the flag and does the work
mouseUp -- clears the flag
mouseRelease -- also clears the flag
The problem with this approach is that it's both unintuitive and
cumbersome to write. It works great, but until someone comes along and
spells it out (or makes a nifty demo like Rossi did) the odds of someone
stumbling across that solution on their own is close to nil.
Some years ago I submitted a request to modify mouseStillDown to be sent
only when the mouse moves, effectively giving us the same thing as those
four handlers but in a more intuitive and simpler form:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1832>
The specifics of that proposal are probably pretty weak, and could
likely benefit from some of you chiming in with better details of the
implementation.
But in one form or another, it would be VERY useful to be able to do
custom drag operations with a single handler. I don't particularly care
what form it takes so long as it gets done.
Suggestions?
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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