She's right. Jeanne is always right. I knew that lock cursor wasn't HC but I got the actual behavior wrong.
On December 7, 2014 6:15:41 PM CST, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: >J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 12/7/2014, 3:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>> Many seeming oddities in the language are merely conventions >>> established >>> by the HyperCard team. IIRC the need to lock the cursor to have it >>> maintained after idle is one of them >> >> It was probably either a SuperCard or MetaCard thing. HC kept the >> cursor >> set until you changed it again. > >We can blame Jeanne, since she doesn't read this list often enough to >defend herself here. :) > >On page 230 of the book she co-authored, "HyperTalk 2.2: The Book" it >claims: > > At idle time -- when all handlers have finished running -- HyperCard > sets the cursor back to the cursor for the current tool, or to the > standard arrow if the pointer is not in the current window. The > only way to lock a cursor to a particular image is to use an XCMD. > >So lockCursor does appear to have been introduced by SuperCard, and >later faithfully carried through by MetaCard and hence LiveCode, but >its >revert-on-idle behavior was either present as of HC V2.2 or Jeanne (or >one of the other two authors) miswrote the cursor entry in their book. > >Interestingly, that page goes on to note that there was no way to query > >the current cursor image. It's been so long since I used HC I'd >forgotten how limited it was. > >-- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > >_______________________________________________ >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 -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ 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
