Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Mike: You need to do things a little differently. Try the following... Set up some kind of a trigger to start/stop the color tracking. This can be anything but I'll use a button with it's autoHilite property disabled just for simplicity. on mouseUp set the hilite of me to not the hili

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-08 Thread Michael Doub
Scott, My app is pretty simple. 2 graphic objects, one called "Big" the other called "Little".I have double checked and the cursor switches from cross to arrow when you leave the stack window and mousecolor stops. -= Mike On Mousemove set the cursor to cross set the lockCursor to

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Scott Rossi
That seems wrong, like something else is going on. Mark S is right, going across multiple monitors seems to fail, but you should be able to grab color from anywhere on the screen, not just within LC windows. Have you tried to make a simple test stack/script that only grabs the mouseColor? Regard

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Doub
i am on mac 10.7.2 where I see the problem I just updated my PC to windows 7 and it seems to be working on that system, but the cursor is constrained to only the livecode windows. Is there a way to capture the mousecolor outside of the livecode windows? I am setting lockcursor to true. The

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/7/12 4:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Mac 10.6.8 Maybe a Lion thing?... That's a thought. I'm on Snow Leopard. It works there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com __

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/7/12 4:42 PM, Michael Doub wrote: Just to clarify, I am getting the seemingly random color data being return from the mousecolor on 5.0.2 on an intel based mac. I'm on 5.0.2 on an Intel iMac, it seems to be working here okay. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Mac 10.6.8 Maybe a Lion thing?... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Original message Subject: Re: the mousecolor From: Michael Doub To: How to use LiveCode CC: I am using 5.0.2 on a mac. Scott, are you using a PC? -= Mike On 2012-01

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Doub
Just to clarify, I am getting the seemingly random color data being return from the mousecolor on 5.0.2 on an intel based mac. -= Mike On 2012-01-07, at 4:42 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > Does anyone know if "the mousecolor" feature is working properly in 5.0.0? > I seem to be getting random

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Doub
I am using 5.0.2 on a mac. Scott, are you using a PC? -= Mike On 2012-01-07, at 4:42 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > Does anyone know if "the mousecolor" feature is working properly in 5.0.0? > I seem to be getting random data returning that is not even close to the > color being selected. >

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Can you test in 5.0.2? I believe 5.0.0 has some minor display issues -- not sure if the mouseColor is one of them, but it seems to be working correctly here in 5.0.2 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Michael Doub wrote: > Does anyone know if "the mouse

Re: the mousecolor

2012-01-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, In case you're using multiple monitors: pixel-color-related function don't work with multiple monitors. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 B