OK, I accepted your dare and was surprised to see that it worked (didn't used to). Nice. Though you're still left with the limitations of working within a single stack, and no dragging in or out. But if the technique works for you, awesome.
Speaking as someone who has rolled custom drag-and-drop code (execute in your message box): go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/TMdragndrop.rev"; ...I'll suggest from experience that at some point it will benefit you to get a handle on the built-in routines. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/9/13 1:36 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 05/09/2013 11:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> Only you can know why you always use that technique, > >What? you expect me to know my own mind? LOL. > >I use that technique as I tend to use a single stack, or a signle stack >with associated palettes. > >> but with grab, >> there's no way to act upon events/messages while grab is active (thus >>you >> can't do cursor updates and provide user feedback), and you can't "grab" >> an object across stacks. > >Aha; got you. > >Why do I have a funny feeling that you could use > >mouseStillDown > >to get feedback > >Ha, ha,ha . . . I just made a stack containing a button "DRAG ME ABOUT" > >and a field "KOUNT" > >in the button I have this script: > >on mouseDown > grab me >end mouseDown > >on mouseStillDown > put fld "KOUNT" into KOUNT > add 1 to KOUNT > put KOUNT into fld "KOUNT" > wait 3 ticks >end mouseStillDown > >on mouseUp > put empty into fld "KOUNT" >end mouseUp > >Try it, I dare you . . . you get feedback. > >Richmond. > > >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >> >> >> >> >> On 5/9/13 12:42 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 05/09/2013 09:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >>>> Ray Horsley <ray@...> writes: >>>> >>>>> What am I missing to get drag/drop working consistently? >>>> You might also want to look at >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>><http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/7124-pinning-drag-and-dro >>>>p- >>>> to-the-mat-a-primer> >>>> >>> Why do I always just use >>> >>> on mouseDown >>> grab me >>> end mouseDown >>> >>> then set up a load of images as dropTargets and have stuff like this in >>> the grabbedObject: >>> >>> on mouseUp >>> if not within (img "target", the mouseloc) then >>> set the loc of me to 857,673 >>> end if >>> end mouseUp >>> >>> must be missing something. >>> >>> Richmond. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
