Re: Hotspot events & joystick mode

[Aidan G. <wgs...@ih...>]

  Actually, scratch that.  It disappeared in revision 180.  What did you 
do?  Maybe the missing page was returned.

  -Aidan

Aidan Gauland wrote:
>   Ok, thanks for that clarification, I'll remember that.  And about the 
> joystick mode bug, it's not in the stable release (0.2.6), only in the 
> developmental Subversion release.  I'll look at the Subversion history 
> for Pipmak, and try older versions to see when it appeared.
> 
>   -Aidan
> 
> Christian Walther wrote:
>> Aidan Gauland wrote:
>>>   There are two control (i.e. hotspots and handles) events that I just 
>>> can't figure out: onhilite and enenddrag.  Can anyone tell me what 
>>> triggers these, and how to use them?
>> onhilite is used on controls that represent buttons (in the usual 
>> computer GUI sense) and is triggered whenever the button should 
>> highlight or unhighlight: Highlight when the mouse goes down on the 
>> button, unhighlight when the mouse, still down, leaves it, highlight 
>> again, when the mouse, still down, reenters it, unhighlight when the 
>> mouse goes up, etc. You should find many examples of this in the 
>> internal nodes (main menu, Lua command line, etc.) that are stored in 
>> the "Pipmak Resources" ZIP file (on Windows and Linux); the demo project 
>> has one on the title node too.
>>
>> onenddrag is triggered when the mouse goes up after it went down on the 
>> control, no matter where it is now (onmouseup is only triggered when the 
>> mouse goes up on the control). Search for "onenddrag" in the demo 
>> project, I think it's used there a few times too.
>>
>> Incidentally, these two events are the ones that were not directly 
>> modeled after HyperCard (except for the spelling of "hilite"). onhilite 
>> is necessary because HyperCard handles the highlighting of a button 
>> internally. onenddrag is an addition that seemed useful to me - in 
>> HyperCard, such things were usually done in ways like "repeat while the 
>> mouse is down", which doesn't work in Pipmak.
>>
>> I guess I should complete the documentation about these one day...
>>
>>>   And another thing, I'm asking about this because it wasn't on the list 
>>> of things that remain to be done/fixed for 0.2.7: joystick mode doesn't 
>>> seem to let me pan very far, the limit seems to be about oh, say 30 
>>> degrees.  This isn't intentional is it?
>> Not at all - that sounds like a pretty serious bug. One that I've never 
>> heard of. Do you think you'd be able to figure out what's going on yourself?
>>
>>   -Christian
>>
>>
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