[Gambas-user] Freeze mouse input for a second

[Willy Raets]

Hi Emil,

You were right on the SLEEP not doing the job.

SLEEP freezes the event from being executed.
But as soon as sleep time is finished the event raised during sleep time
gets executed anyway.

But the solution with working with booleans seems fair enough :-)
I'll have a go at that..

Thanks,

Willy

On ma, 2012-02-06 at 18:30 +0100, Emil Lenngren wrote:
> When I did a similar game, I had some boolean variable called locked or
> something. In the mouse receiver event handlers, I first check if the
> boolean variable is set or not. If it is set, I return immediately, if not,
> I continue as normal.
> You should be able to do that as well.
> 
> I should not use sleep, as that freezes the whole application. For example
> it does not redraw the window if it has to.
> 
> /Emil
> 
> 2012/2/6 tobias <tobiasboe1 at ...20...>
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've made a small game called Memory for my kids in Gambas 2.22.
> > >
> > > You click one picture and make it visible, click the other and make it
> > > visible, when matching pictures, disable both pictures, when not
> > > matching make invisible again after 1 sec.
> > >
> > > This all works perfectly (at least for me). When the kids test it they
> > > click one picture and the other, then the wait of 1 sec shows them both
> > > pictures for a second. So far so good.
> > >
> > > But what do kids do, they click another picture before the WAIT 1.0 is
> > > finished and the application suddenly has 3 pictures turned instead of
> > > two. And this is where trouble starts :-)
> > >
> > > My question: Is there a way in Gambas to freeze the mouse input?
> > > So when two pictures are selected and WAIT 1.0 is run, I would like evry
> > > click on the mouse to be ignored for that short period. That would solve
> > > the whole issue.
> > >
> > > Been looking in documentation and google for quite a while now, but no
> > > answer found so far. Hope one of you has an answer.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Willy
> > >
> > >
> >
> > well, i remember that it was possible to
> > INC Application.Busy
> > to disable actions on the form (or something) but i would tend to use
> > the SLEEP instruction just as you use WAIT. WAIT according to the docs
> > reenters the event loop and since you do not want events to be
> > acknowledged but "freeze" the program SLEEP may match the need exactly.
> >
> > regards,
> > tobi
> >
> >
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