Mousemove action outside the card

[dunbarx]

This started with the thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36761

With this in a card script:

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on mouseMove x,y
   put the mouseLoc
end mouseMove

Anywhere in the card a value is returned as one moves the cursor. The handler stops working if one leaves the card window. But if one holds the mouse down while moving, a value is returned wherever on screen the cursor might be. This is not really addressed in the dictionary, and was only discovered by accident while fooling around in the thread mentioned above.

Craig

[mrcoollion]

It is mentioned here : https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/MouseMove

If the mouse button is down, the mouseMove message continues to be sent to the object that was clicked, even if the [[mouse pointer]] moves outside that object.