Steve,
Your suggestion works! Thanks for all of your help. BTW, upgrading to 0.88
also solved the original problem that I posted, as you suggested.
Bruce
At 07:21 AM 6/11/98 PDT, you wrote:
># To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve
Lamont) :
>
>> In the chapter in the manual on EVENTS it says under the FL_PUSH and
>> FL_RELEASE statements that the key parameter returns 1=leftmouse, 2=
>> middlemouse, 3 = rightmouse. This is definitely the case in version 0.86
>> but NOT in version 0.88. ...
>
>You are correct -- I didn't read the manual correctly and got
>sidetracked.
>
>>From my testing I think that what's happening is that there is some
>sort of collison between real events and synthetic events generated by
>XForms's internal timing and the real event gets interpreted
>correctly. TC?
>
>Although in my tests, interpreting the XButtonReleasedEvent seemed to
>work correctly, I guess that it might not necessarily always do so.
>
>In this instance, the following workaround should suffice:
>
> static int handle( FL_OBJECT *obj, int event,
> FL_Coord mx, FL_Coord my,
> int key, void* xev)
>
> {
>
> static int button_pressed = -1;
>
> switch ( event ) {
>
> case FL_PUSH: {
>
> button_pressed = key;
> do_button_pressed_stuff( button_pressed, ... );
> break;
>
> }
> case FL_RELEASE: {
>
> if ( button_pressed != -1 )
> do_button_released_stuff( button_pressed, ... );
> button_pressed = -1;
> break;
>
> }
> [...]
>
>It's a kluge but it seems to work in all the cases I've tried. I
>suppose if you're truly paranoid, you might use fl_get_mouse() or one
>of its ilk to fetch the keymask for parsing.
>
>You could also put this flag in your object's SPEC structure if you
>didn't want to use the static variable, although I can't conjure up a
>scenario where this would be absolutely necessary.
>
> spl
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