Re: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

2013-04-07 Thread Graham Samuel
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.

Re: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Set the cantSelect of the group to true. -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 7 apr. 2013 om 12:54 heeft Graham Samuel het volgende

Re: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

2013-04-07 Thread Peter M. Brigham
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

Re: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

2013-04-07 Thread Graham Samuel
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 option key or its equivalent on their keyboards. However, you

RE: Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

2013-04-07 Thread John Dixon
Can you just use something simple like... on mouseDown if 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 > Subject: Menus and the poi