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From: vanMelle@Xerox.com (Bill van Melle)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: List notification occurs on mouse DOWN!
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:18:08 GMT
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gw18@prism.gatech.EDU (Greg Williams) writes:
>In your Scrolling List notify proc, you could check the event type by using
>event_is_down(event) and event_is_up(event).  They return a 0/1 value if
> . . .
>In fact you can do something different on event_is_down(event) if you wanted.
>Thus you can do processing on both the down and up parts of a button press.

Don't I wish.

I repeat:  Selection notification occurs on mouse DOWN.

which I will clarify by stating that event_is_up(event) is ALWAYS false in
the List notify proc.  So no, I don't get a chance to wait until mouse up
for my action.