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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Prop gadgets and FOLLOWMOUSE
Message-ID: <18856@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:47:28 GMT
References: <51792@cornell.UUCP> <18a9ae90.ARN0d71@swinjm.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <18a9ae90.ARN0d71@swinjm.UUCP> forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas) writes:
>In article <51792@cornell.UUCP>, John H. Lee writes:
>
>> I've been having a problem with prop gadgets and FOLLOWMOUSE.  It seems
>> that the MOUSEMOVE IDCMP messages I get have the IAddress set to the
>> window containing the gadget rather than the gadget itself.

This is a bug that many people reported, (including myself, right
when I arrived at Commodore).  There are two reasons why it won't
change:

1.  Risk of breaking some software that expects to find the window-pointer
    there.
2.  Because it's easy to get around the problem, which you MUST do to
    run under 1.x and 2.0x.
>
>Yes this is  problem for me too.
>You could test your list of props looking for the SELECTED flag:

It's more efficient to remember the pointer to the last gadget you
saw a GADGETDOWN for.

>This works for me.
>
>    Jean-Michel

     Peter
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