>I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of >buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already >down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin >messages are only sent to the first button because that button >receives the mouseDown event and is the target. Similarly the >mouseControl function (yes, it took me a couple of tries to notice >that it was a function and not a message!) only returns the target. > >How can I get the other buttons to hilight without requiring the >user to click each individually?
How about using an idle handler and checking whether the cursor is within the rect of the individual buttons - or better still convert the mouseloc to an integer reflecting a button position in the array - and then set the hilite of the target button (and turn off the hilite of any previous target). Terry... >-- >Michael J. Lew > >Senior Lecturer >Department of Pharmacology >The University of Melbourne >Parkville 3010 >Victoria >Australia > >Phone +613 8344 8304 > >** >New email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >** >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr Terry Judd Lecturer in Instructional Design / Multimedia Developer Biomedical Multimedia Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 03 9344 0187 Fax: 03 9344 4998 ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
