Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!shuxd!devildog!atux01!jlc
From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Preventing Mouse-Click Actions
Summary: another thought
Message-ID: <1270@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 14:39:27 GMT
References: <619@ashtate.UUCP> <40759@bbn.COM>
Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J.
Lines: 39

In article <40759@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
> In article <619@ashtate.UUCP> peggyl@ashtate.UUCP (Peggy Lerch) writes:
> >Is there any way to prevent a button script from executing if
> >the mouse button is clicked while the script is already executing?
> 
> Here are two approaches:
> 
>  o  You could have the script record the time at which it ran in a
>     global variable.  Then, at the top of the script, compare this value
>     to the current time, and if the difference is less than N ticks
>     don't run the script again (or beep, or tell the user to take a
>     tranquilizer or something).
> 
> >I'm trying to write educational stacks for my three-year old who
> >goes click-crazy and then has to wait for a long time for the
> >script to stop repeating itself.
> 
> This could also be useful for Hypercard neophytes who are forever
> double-clicking, since that's what they're used to from using the Finder.

I just thought that if this was implemented using a verbal response from
either MacinTalk, or A digitized voice (as in using "MacRecorder" by Farallon
Computing), this might be especially effective for young children.

For example, after creating such a script you could have a message kick in
that said:  "Please don't click the mouse so much or so fast!"  To a young
child I would expect that this would have one of three effects:

1)  Either it startled the child enough to obey the recorded command,

2)  THe child would double-click MORE OFTEN for the "fun" of hearing the
    computer speak,

3)  THe child would ignore the computerized command altogether.

Anyway, it might be worth trying.


						Jim Collymore