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From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: RMB question
Message-ID: <1991May9.133425.19358@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 9 May 91 13:34:25 GMT
References: <1991May8.155337.5049@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes:

>[]

>Is there an easy and legal way to catch a right-mouse button event under
>intuition while still having access to the menus (since RMBTRAP traps
>the right-button before the menu stuff could get it).

  If what you want to do is to be able to detect when the user brings up the
menu-bar, you should probably use the MENUVERIFY IDCMP-flag (which is
totally legal, as long as you watch out for deadlocks/mousefreezing, which
is bad in pre-2.0). This way you can respond to the button yourself, and let
intuition handle the menus afterwards.
  If, on the other hand you are after the sort of thing that Dpaint does,
you could switch RMBTRAP on and off using SetIDCMP() (or something similar).
Simply request MOUSEMOVE, and when the mouse gets over the titlebar,
de-activate the RMBTRAP. Now that I think of it, I'm not fully sure that
RMBTRAP is an IDCMP-flag, but if it is, this is also very legal. (DPaint
also uses MENUVERIFY to fix the colors for the menu).

>mike
> 

>-- 
>"There is no problem to big that can't be solved with high explosives"-Rush

>Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike

	Hope this helps,

	- Kristian.