Maybe you could "send MouseEnter to [same control]" when you change cards if that restarts the mouseMove stream.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:32 PM, David Epstein <dfepst...@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks to Scott Rossi, whose example is indeed what I am trying to do, and > to Matt Maier, who warns me that there are aspects of mouseMove I don't > quite understand. > In trying to see why Scott's example works and mine does not, I discovered > that my "mouseleave" handler seemed to be the problem. If I have "on > mouseleave, go card 1, end mouse leave" in my script, then the mouseMove > message stops firing after it triggers one change of card, perhaps because > that change of card makes LC think I have "left" the control my mouse was > moving in. (But why does it not still detect a "mousemove" on that same > control on the card I have moved to? It seems like mouseMove doesn't start > reporting unless there has been a "mouseEnter" event, and with my change of > card my mouse did not enter the control because it was already in it). > Adding my mouseLeave handler to Scott's script won't show this unless I > also change the points of his polygon so that it is a single rectangle > rather than 3 non-adjacent rectangles. With his polygon, the mouse really > is "leaving" and then re-entering the polygon when it moves from one > rectangle to the next; so that on each change of card there is a new > mouseEnter event that restarts the mouseMove message stream. > I tried Matt’s idea of catching all mouseMoves, but still had problems. > So I have placed the entire “quick browse” diagram in a separate palette, > where mouseMove is not bothered by card changes in the main stack. > David Epstein > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode