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 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 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 mean I don't want the user to be able
> to select the menu group at all, so that no selection handles appear and the
> menu goes on acting like a menu. Obviously I can protect the group from being
> deleted, but how to I protect it from being treated like just another object?
>
> This issue clearly doesn't arise on Macs, which is why I've never encountered
> it before - the only object-manipulating programs I've written before were
> for Macs.
>
> Puzzled, not for the first or indeed for the nth time, where n is a pretty
> large number.
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
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