mouse everything

[mattmaier]

I've got little fields with some text in them that the user can drag around. After the user is done dragging I want to update an array with the final location of the field. Usually, the script figures out that the user is done and updates the final location, but every now and then it doesn't. I've got every handler I can find that seems relevant set up to capture the event, but still sometimes none of these handlers gets a message.

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on mouseMove newMouseX,newMouseY
if the mouse is down then
userDrag (the long name of me, newMouseX, newMouseY, the cNodeKey of me)
end if
end mouseMove
on mouseUP
userMoveNode (the cNodeKey of me, the loc of me)
userFinishDrag
end mouseUP
on mouseRelease
userMoveNode (the cNodeKey of me, the loc of me)
end mouseRelease
on mouseLeave
if the mouse is down then
userMoveNode (the cNodeKey of me, the loc of me)
end if
end mouseLeave

I'm not confident that I'm able to consistently replicate the error. I'm using a touchpad and the field's lockText and opaque are set to true. Sometimes it seems like maybe the no-message problem is when the mouse isn't over the text; sometimes it seems like it's when I slide my finger just right as I'm releasing the mouse button. The BYU site said that touch messages are automatically converted to mouse messages, so maybe that's not a problem.

[bn]

Hi Matt,

I don't see why your code should not work.
In similar situations I use code like this

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local sTrack
local sXDiff, sYDiff

on mouseDown
   put the clickLoc into tClick
   put the loc of me into tLoc
   put item 1 of tLoc - item 1 of tClick into sXDiff
   put item 2 of tLoc - item 2 of tClick into sYDiff
   put true into sTrack
   -- your houseKeeping here 
end mouseDown

on mouseMove x,y
   if sTrack then
      set the loc of me to x + sXDiff, y + sYDiff
      -- houseKeeping 
      -- userDrag (the long name of me, newMouseX, newMouseY, the cNodeKey of me)
   end if
end mouseMove

on mouseUp
   put false into sTrack
   -- houseKeeping
   -- userMoveNode (the cNodeKey of me, the loc of me)
   -- userFinishDrag
end mouseUp

on mouseRelease
   mouseUp
end mouseRelease

try if that does what you want.
Note the script local variables above all handlers.

Kind regards
Bernd