On 2/7/11 7:07 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
And, as someone else pointed out, the mouseStack property does NOT correctly report the name of the stack that the mouse is over unless you are in a mouseUp handler, or at least it didn't in Scott's handler. Sorry to keep harping on this, but the dictionary, yet again, is flawed.
If that's so, then it sounds like the mousestack property is only updated on idle. I know that's true of lots of other properties. If your dragging handler uses a "repeat until the mouse is up" structure, you aren't giving any time to the engine and lots of things won't get updated. It's a good argument for using "send" instead. Repeat loops are slow and memory hogs too.
<http://www.hyperactivesw.com/polling.html>
I found the IDE code that handles the drag and drop of controls from the Tools palette. It figures out which stack the mouse is over by comparing the mouse location to the rectangle of each open stack. So I did the same thing and it works fine. I hope I'm not breaking any intellectual property laws.
Nope, it's not only fine, it's encouraged. That's why RR leaves the scripts unlocked. It's a great way to learn.
I'm left with one strangeness. As a control is being dragged, it has a blue background. After it is copied to the new stack, it still has a blue background until I click on it, then it goes back to the background of the original control. I noticed that happening in Scott's script (except it's green instead of blue). Not a big deal but Scott, wondering if you might have a fix for that?
If a script sets any properties of the template object, then all new controls of that type will also use those properties until the template is reset. Use "reset the template<whatever>" before creating a new control to revert it back to the default values. I.e., for a field, "reset the templatefield".
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