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From: ajk@goanna.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: proportional gadgets
Message-ID: <794@goanna.oz>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 18:53:48 EST
Article-I.D.: goanna.794
Posted: Wed Apr 22 18:53:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 04:13:04 EST
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Keywords: unwanted mouse button messages

Sorry if this has been asked before.

When using a proportional gadget, I noticed that if you click the
button on the actual knob and drag it you only get a single IDCMP
message saying that a new value has been set. However, if you click
in the box to move the knob by an increment, you get MOUSEBUTTONS
messages too (button down and button up). Since Intuition is using
this information itself to manipulate gadgets, shouldnt it NOT send
mouse buttons messages? It does not send button messages when using
any other gadgets. I ended up having to clip using the coordinates
of button messages (if button down but not inside window borders,
throw it away) but extra care had to be taken for button-up in case
the user pushed the button down inside the window but then draged
the mouse and released it outside the window. YUCK!

Anyway, are the unwanted mouse buttons messges a bug or a feature?
Any way to disable this 'feature' cleanly?

Please MAIL responses. This group seems to be getting a fairly high
number of messages that seem more like personal mail than of international
interest. (In my humble opinion anyway - no flames please).
I still think this group good enough to outlay several hundred dollars
of my own money to get it into the country (Australia).

Oh, I also would like icons in a single file. I also dont use the
workbench because opening a draw take so rudy long and all those .info
files are a pain.

I also recently designed (well, my brother actually) a home brew Ram/clock/
interface to a hard disk controller card port. Gee the extra ram is nice.
Using Aztec with the +H and +I commands with the symbol table file copied
to RAM: makes compiling a series of files HEAPS faster.

Thanks in advance for any help


Alan Kent                     UUCP: {seismo,hplabs,mcvax,ukc,nttlab}
Dept of Computing                         !munnari!goanna.oz!ajk
Royal Melb. Inst. of Tech.    ACSnet: ajk@goanna.oz
124 La Trobe St               ARPA: munnari!goanna.oz!ajk@SEISMO.ARPA
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
AUSTRALIA