On 7/4/11 7:59 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
Well, my solution was to use Jacqueline's idea of polling all the controls for an "if within". Also followed Dave Cragg's advice about mouseLoc (x,y) values.
That's how my Klondike solitaire game worked too, using a flag if the mouse was down and the x,y coordinates passed by mouseMove. You asked about "dozens" -- it depends on where you are in the game. There are 52 playing cards in a deck and depending on how the card piles are arranged, I sometimes needed to poll most of them, especially if nothing had been played on any aces yet.
Stack works fast. But on machines that are VERY old...
It was fast back in 2002 when I wrote it in MetaCard too. The polling was never a problem. The mouseMove handler had to drag up to a dozen cards behind it if the user wanted to move a long pile to another column, and originally that part did lag a bit, you could see the line of cards sort of fan out behind the drag, but on today's machines that doesn't happen any more. The response is smooth.
Klondike is uploaded to OnRev if you want to look, but it sounds like you've got it figured out now.
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