Thomas McGrath III, before get started I want to thank you for posting
your pics to frappr. Your two pictures are a great compliment to one
another: one looks like the serious philosopher, the other like a kid
having so much fun he might burst. Good stuff. :)
This hit home with me, as I've wrestled with mouse-message issues myself
in some apps:
Sure I had a few glitches along the way what with mouseDown hogging all
of the messages and Unicode not working with text search filters. But
at least it seems the Unicode will get better as time goes on and I
have yet to figure out the altBrowser usage but it is still on my
horizon. Now if someone at Runtime would see the usefulness of at least
one flavor of MouseDown passing it's message along instead of back to
the original target, or a new penDown message etc., then I could really
start building solutions for the PDA and SmartPhone industry. My
solution worked but had a level of complexity that was not needed in my
opinion. I feel I could do an even better job if the mouseDown/penDown
worked the way it does on a PDA/phone. And the more experience I get
with REV then the more solutions I can put out.
It can be tricky to implement, but have you considered changing your
mouseDown handler to a mouseMove handler instead? That way you still
get other messages in between mouseMove messages.
I had to do something like that for part of an app recently, and while I
was at first afraid it would be too computationally expenses I was
impressed with Rev's graceful handling of whatever I threw at it. I
have a lot happening on mouseMove, and haven't yet run into a wall with it.
This market is just exploding. The palm had tens of thousands of
downloads for UI enhancements and if I could do the same with my ideas
in SmartPhones it would open it up for many Revbuilders.
Let's see if we can make that happen.
My clients would kill me if I took time right now to even look at
anything other than their code, but hopefully others here are more
organized and in a better position to help with some code review.
In the meantime, any snippets you can share here for refinement are
always a good time -- I love watching how different minds contribute to
refining algos.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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