Thanks, Jacque. I'll have a look. Judy
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/3/03 9:48 PM, Judy Perry wrote: > > > I just checked this link out. > > > >>From what I read, it's a much more verbose solution and the only > > advantage I see mentioned is that it prevents the user from dragging an > > object out of bounds (whatever that means -- out of its intended target? > > Off the card?). > > > > Am I understanding it correctly? > > Continually polling the mouse location in a repeat loop uses up a lot of > system resources. In MacOS (before OS X) it wasn't as big a deal because > the Mac didn't really multitask and so you weren't holding up any other > apps very much by hogging the event queue with a long repeat loop. But > on all other OSs, tying up the event queue with non-stop polling can > cause problems with other background tasks. The more efficient (and > Raney-approved) method is to use built-in Rev messages to do the polling > for you. > > I explain it more here: > > http://www.hyperactivesw.com/polling.html > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
