Ali: Interesting. I wonder, doesn’t it violate the usefulness of autocomplete if there are a bunch of items listed that don’t pertain to the control being edited? I somehow had assumed that the list was adjusted to be relevant to the particular control’s script in question. Best, Bill
> On Oct 3, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > probably best in this instance to refer to the dragLeave entry in the > dictionary - "Sent when the mouse pointer moves out of an object during a drag > and drop." So, this is relevant to all controls including the scrollbar, > but perhaps not in the way you would think immediately. > > PS, you can use the documentation tab in the script editor to display brief > info about the livecode syntax token at the current text entry point, or > right click on a token and choose 'Find in docs' to see the dictionary > entry. > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:24 PM William Prothero via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Folks: >> In livecode 8.1.7 (RC2), I drag a scrollbar to the window of a new stack. >> I the scrollbar script, I put the following code: >> >> on dragLeave >> >> answer “here" >> >> end dragLeave >> >> The “dragLeave” message is shown in the autocomplete list. There are >> numerous other entries in the autocomplete list in the IDE editor, that >> look like messages that are sent for various operations. >> >> I get nothing when I move the scroll with the mouse. Same behavior for >> “slider” and “scrollbar” controls in 9.0.0 (DP9). >> >> What’s up? Is this a bug, confusion on my part? Seems non-intuitive. It >> seems to me that there are a LOT of entries in the auto-complete list that >> do nothing relevant to the control. If I put the handler in the stack >> script, I also get nothing. >> >> Best, >> Bill P >> >> >> >> William A. Prothero >> http://earthlearningsolution.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
