On 23.02.12 21:55, Quincey Morris wrote:
Ah, it's clear now. But I still think your theory is flawed. You can't
assume that the physical act of pressing the mouse button doesn't change
the reading (that is, doesn't possibly move the mouse slightly). I don't
think that the rounding in mouseDown has anything to do with it. All we
know is that currently, the mouse can move during the act of pressing
down without producing a new mouseMoved, whereas previously it didn't
behave like that -- or, not often enough to notice.
I agree, but...
Incidentally, I have some event-related code that's evolved for years
over a series of different apps, and I noticed recently that in its last
evolution a couple of years ago, I apparently arranged for all of the
common events (mouseEntered, mouseExited, mouseMoved, mouseDown,
mouseUp, mouseDragged, keyDown and keyUp) to always call cursorUpdate
before doing whatever else they do. That allowed me to consolidate the
hover-highlight-detection in one place (cursorUpdate), and gave
consistency to the highlighting in cases exactly like the one you're
describing.
I think I do exactly the same thing, unless I missunderstand what
cursorUpdate does for you, namely (1) detect which item to highlight,
(2) which to lowlight, (3) which to leave alone and (4) do all that. All
in a central place.
Mouse movement highlighting must happen when the mouse moves. At that
time, only the mouse move coordinates are known. They correspond with
what happens on the screen, so highlighting works as expected.
Now a mouse-down comes along with different coordinates. That change in
coordinates is not reflected visually on screen (no cursor movement, no
highlight changes). It leads to other objects than the one highlighted
one being manipulated. Really confusing to the end user.
Regards
Markus
PS: None of your or my replies seem to make it through to the list
although both you an I cc the list. Not sure why that is.
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