Thanks Mark - it does seem the easiest solution, although the other suggestions
were very interesting: in fact I wonder why your solution wasn't the first one
to come up. AFAICS you can't refer to the cantselect of an object from the
Object Inspector in the IDE, which is perhaps why I missed it.
Set the cantSelect of the group to true.
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Op 7 apr. 2013 om 12:54 heeft Graham Samuel het volgende
On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Sadly, my users aren't that sophisticated. They get one chance to pick the
> pointer tool, and then they expect to mess with the objects in a particular
> window set aside for the purpose. The Windows ones probably have no idea
> about the opti
the optionKey is "down" then
> grab me
> end if
> end mouseDown
>
> putting this in, or allowing access to a 'simple' 'grab me' routine in the
> object that you wish to move ...
>
> Dixie
>
>> From: livf...@mac.com
>>
@mac.com
> Subject: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:54:14 +0200
> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
>
> I guess this is another very naive question, but the answer is not easy to
> find in the LC documentation.
>
> If I allow the user of a Win
I guess this is another very naive question, but the answer is not easy to find
in the LC documentation.
If I allow the user of a Windows desktop app access to the pointer tool so that
he/she can move objects around, select them etc, how do I protect the menu
group at the top of the window? I m