rightMouseUpOutside?

[Kurt Griffin]

I tried searching for this, because part of it seems like it should be 
logged a bug, but I'm not sure if I searched on the correct terms. 
Regardless, here's my problem.

I have a simple "drag and drop" activity, where the user left-clicks on 
a bitmap sprite, drags it to a target, and releases. Works fine. Except 
when the user right-clicks on the sprite, drags, and releases. The 
sprite disappears. However... the place where the sprite should be on 
screen still changes cursor, and clicking in that area makes the bitmap 
appear. Until release, when the bitmap goes away again. Odd - I guess 
the sprite is still there... or the behavior is still there, and the 
channel is retaining the sprite's rect. Instead of worrying about the 
root of this strange effect, I thought I'd just lock off the rightmouse 
button. So, I dropped some dummy event handlers (on rightMouseDown/UP, 
nothing) into the sprite behavior, which help... except now the cursor 
leaves the sprite, and the rightMouseUp happens outside the sprite, so 
only the condition of clicking and releasing inside the sprite is 
fixed.

Here's what I think is a bug - I put a simple "put" command in the "on 
mouseUpOutside" handler, and that handler is getting triggered on a 
right mouseUpOutside.

There is no rightMouseUpOutside event handler, apparently.

Of course, no user should be rightMouse dragging - at least, I can't 
think of any app where you would use the right mouse to drag anything - 
but the client has flagged it as a "major" (yeah, right) bug. So, 
putting "don't try to drag with the friggin' right mouse button" in the 
readme won't cut it, Warren.

I suppose I could try dropping a screen-sized not-ghosted sprite on top 
of everything on a global rightmouseDown, and remove it on a global 
rightmouseUp, but I'd prefer something a tad less sledgehammer-like.

Any thoughts?

-Kurt

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