Mouse polling answers for Scott

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Silverman
Hi Scott, Thanks for not letting me off the hook :) >At the very least, you have to answer the question: is asynchronous >(real time) polling of the mouse buttons with the mouse function >adequate, or is it important to preserve the event-based >implementation of HyperCard (and I thought Super

Re: Mouse polling answers for Scott

2002-02-27 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 Charles Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for not letting me off the hook :) > > >At the very least, you have to answer the question: is asynchronous > >(real time) polling of the mouse buttons with the mouse function > >adequate, or is it important to preserve

Re: Mouse polling answers for Scott

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Raney writes: > despite having seen statements from various people about the > unreliability of the mouse function, we still *don't* have a > reproducible example where it returns the wrong value. If > it's as common as some people seem to think it is, it should > be possible to come up wi

Re: Mouse polling answers for Scott

2002-02-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 12:05 PM -0700 2/27/02, Scott Raney wrote: >Can someone please verify this? We've had two anecdotal reports that >SC does *not* work this way. Running Geoff's example script will >clear up the issue once and for all I think. I tested SuperCard 3.5.1 with the following script: on mouseUp r