Thanks,

I'll check that out!

-Charles-A.

Bob Arning wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:16:21 -0500 "Charles-A. Rovira" <crovira at wt.net> wrote:
> >Want to run that one by me again?
> >
> >You surely don't have a loop polling the mouse to see what happened...
> >
> >Most GUIs generate separate events for mouse down and mouse up so you can bring the
> >mouse down over a widget and not trigger by moving the mouse off and then releasing
> >it so something else get the mouse up. They also generate mouse mode and get lose
> >focus events...
>
> Charles-A.,
>
> There are actually levels within levels here, some polling and some events:
>
> 1. How the underlying OS communicates with the VM varies platrorm by platform.
> 2. How the VM communicates with the image is (in the case of Morphic) a polling loop (see PasteUpMorph>>doOneCycleNow and HandMorph>>processEvents).
> 3. How the HandMorph communicates those events to the appropriate morph - see various implementators of #mouseDown: and #mouseUp:, e.g.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob