Re: Why thread limitations on mouse reads?

The limitations are there so that some boxes can fake mouse actions
from the perspective of other boxes.  If a box can look at the mouse
at any random time, it's going to be really hard to fake it.

The real solution (which I haven't gotten around to implementing yet)
is to have Press1, Release1, Move, etc put an (x,y) mouse position
instead of 'true'.

  - a



Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> If I have a thread that passes a value to a property who in turn makes
> use of a call to box.mouseinside, box.mouse.x, or box.mouse.y, the
> follwing error is given:
>
>            Scheduler: a JavaScript thread spawned with ibex.thread()
> threw an exception:
>                           at
> file:src/org/ibex/theme/win2k/scrollbar.t:36
>                           at trap on property "action"
>                           at file:src/ibex/lib/repeatable.t:30
>                       JSExn: you cannot read from the box.mouse property
> in background thread context
>                           at org.ibex.Box.get(Box.java:523)
>                           at
> org.ibex.js.Interpreter.run(Interpreter.java:313)
>                           at
> org.ibex.js.Interpreter.resume(Interpreter.java:39)
> at org.ibex.js.JSFunction.perform(JSFunction.java:31)
>                           at
> org.ibex.Scheduler.defaultRun(Scheduler.java:77)
>                           at org.ibex.Scheduler.run(Scheduler.java:54)
>                           at org.ibex.Scheduler.init(Scheduler.java:17)
>                           at org.ibex.Main.main(Main.java:101)
>
> This seems like a very unecessary limitation and rules about basically
> any time-based interaction with the mouse.
> -- 
> - Charlie
>
> Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
> Online @ http://www.charlietech.com
>
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