Hi Rob,

On Jan 2, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Robert Withers wrote:

> I am trying to build a strategy game along the lines of StarCraft  
> or Civilization (I have not yet decided if it is to be a realtime  
> or turn-based game).  The view will have a small map of the entire  
> world and a viewer window showing a large view of a smaller portion  
> of the map.  Now, StarCraft ad Civ are full screen games, so they  
> own the mouse (the mouse never leaves the game).

That's interesting, and reminds me of Eddie's WarGame (see below).

> Currently I am shooting for a SystemWindow that is maximized in  
> Squeak, like if you hit the expand button.

I hope your eventual target is full-screen mode.

> I was hoping to capture the mouse inside of this window and then  
> detect when it is against one of the edges of the window to start  
> scrolling the viewer.  Is this possible?

Have you seen/ran/edited Eddie Cottongim's RTS-style WarGame demo?
  See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3136

He uses morphs that border the screen and/or window to get mouse- 
click-less intuitive scrolling.

I've wanted to play with using SIMS together with this framework, but  
priorities have been elsewhere.

--
-Brian
http://briantrice.com

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