On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I regularly use "repeat until the mouseClick" without the same > problems I experience with the mouse function. My question is: Does > the advice to stay away from polling the mouse extend to the > mouseClick function as well? Scott has warned that the mouse() > function may/will be discontinued. How about mouseClick()? Is it also > in jeopardy?
Yes. The full list of functions to avoid because they are deprecated is: the mouse the mouseClick the mouseH the mouseV the mouseLoc the optionKey the commandKey the controlKey And the very worst thing to do with any of these is "repeat until <function>", which will condemn you to the fires of eternal damnation in multiuser hell ;-) The last 3 can be safely acquired with "the keysDown", but be careful to not sit in a repeat loop calling that or you may hang your app or at the very least have the gods of multiuser development strike you down. And while we're on the subject of bad technique that will cause you grief at some point, also avoid using the following messages: mouseStillDown mouseWithin idle That's it. Not a long list, and in all cases it's very easy (I would even in most cases say trivial) to do it the right way. A small price to pay for shrugging off the last of the circa 1984 single-user single-tasking design of MacOS and HyperCard. Regards, Scott > -- > Jim Hurley ******************************************************** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution