On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:03 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > >> On 1/9/2015 8:02 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: >>> Are people saying that in some newer versions of LC the mouseEnter >>> message is not sent to the control being entered but rather directly >>> to the stack? >> >> No, that part behaves as it always did. Controls receive mouseEnter >> normally. Previous versions of the Mac engine did not send the message to >> the card or stack if there was no control under the mouse though. In LC 7 it >> does. Apparently it always did that on Linux, so the behavior was specific >> to the platform. >> >> You can test by creating a new stack without any controls, just a blank >> card. Put a mouseEnter handler into the card or stack script. Move the mouse >> into the stack window. In LC 6.x nothing will happen. In LC 7 the handler >> will execute. > > It looks like that change actually happened in LC 6.7. In 6.5 no mouseEnter > is sent if there is no control object under the mouse. Starting in 6.7 a > mouseEnter is sent to the card even if there is no control object under the > mouse. Is this possibly an effect of the switch to Cocoa?
Sorry, the second sentence in the paragraph above should say “In 6.5 *and 6.6* no mouseEnter is sent…” Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ 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
