Well, to answer my own question, you get cursorUpdate events when scrolling on Snow Leopard, but apparently not on Leopard.
On 2010-12-04, at 2:10 AM, Dave Fernandes wrote: > I'm just playing with this myself, and when using an NSTrackingArea, I find I > get cursorUpdate: events when scrolling. This event provides the mouse > location just like mouseMoved:. Based on the sparse description for > cursorUpdate:, however, I can't tell whether I can count on this behavior. > Can anyone else confirm? > > Thanks, > Dave > > On 2010-12-01, at 10:42 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > >> >> On 02/12/2010, at 2:19 PM, Rick Mann wrote: >> >>> I have a view that shows the coordinates of the current mouse location in >>> it. I update this via -mouseMoved: But if the user scrolls the view with a >>> scroll ball, I don't get mouse moved events. >>> >>> 1) What's the best way to react to scroll changes? I'm currently observing >>> the NSViewBoundsDidChangeNotification. >>> >>> 2) How can I get the mouse position at this point? I don't have an NSEvent >>> to check. >> >> >> Scrolling might occur for some reason other than an event, such as a timer >> when autoscrolling, so listening for a bounds change is probably the right >> approach, assuming it is triggered for a scroll. Otherwise you may have to >> resort to polling for a change in the frame origin. >> >> You can get the mouse position using [NSWindow >> mouseLocationOutsideOfEventStream] >> >> --Graham >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dave.fernandes%40utoronto.ca >> >> This email sent to dave.fernan...@utoronto.ca > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dave.fernandes%40utoronto.ca > > This email sent to dave.fernan...@utoronto.ca _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
