Handling mouseText and mouseline events

[glenn9]

Hi everyone,

If in a field containing various lengths of lines of text the mouseText isn't handleable but a mouseLine is, is it possible to handle both of these commands in the same mouseUp event?

My tries so far seem to have shown me that to handle a mouseText event the listBehavior of the field needs to be 'false', and 'true' for the mouseLine command.

In the same mouseUp event I've tried to set the listBehavior with script to be concordant with the relevent mouseText/Line test but with only limited success.

Just wanted to check if what I'm wanting to achieve is possible??

Thanks,

Glenn

[richmond62]

All seems fairly straightforward:

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on mouseUp
   put the mouseText into fld "Lclicked"
   put the mouseLine into fld "Lnum"
end mouseUp

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[richmond62]

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Changing the line contents to be of varying lengths seems to make no obvious difference.

[Klaus]

Hi Glenn,

of coursee you can use mousetext and mouseline in ONE mouseup handler.

BUT an open field (locktext = false) does not receive any MOUSEUP or MOUSEDOWN* messages!
*Only a right mousedown to be able to display a context menu or whatever.
Something like this does work:

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on mousedown tNumber
  ## Right mousedown
  if tNumvber = 3 then
    popup btn "some text related menu" at the mouseloc
 end if
end mousedown

But NO mouseup handler.

A "mousemove" handler does work however in open fields, no idea if this will help you.

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on mousemove
  put the mousetext & CR & the mouseline
end mousemove

So maybe you need to rethink what and how you are doing what you need to.


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

THIS CALLS FOR A KLUDGE!

If your field is editable, put this in the field script:

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on mouseEnter
  interrogate
end mouseEnter

on interrogate
  if the mouse is down and the mouseLoc is within the rect of me then answer the mouseLine & return & the mousetext
  send "interrogate" to me in 1
end interrogate

Works a treat. Have not tested to see if any special escape routes are a good idea.
The one embedded, "...and the mouseLoc is within..." is VERY necessary.
Craig

[glenn9]

Dear all,

many thanks for the suggestions, I'll gives these a try and see how it goes...

regards,

Glenn

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Let us know how it goes. My post allows you to click any number of times in the field, each time giving you information. If you want to do this only once, change the handler to:

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on mouseEnter
 interrogate
end mouseEnter

on interrogate
  if the mouse is down and the mouseLoc is within the rect of me then
     answer the mouseLine & return & the mousetext
     exit to top
  end if
  send "interrogate" to me in 1
end interrogate

Craig