[Gambas-user] Mouse X & Y reporting...

[vuott at tutanota.com]

I do not believe that he can position the text in the TextArea, "directly" according to the ".X" and ".Y" Properties, or ".ScreenX" and ".ScreenY" of the Mouse Class.




12 nov 2023, 16:42 da bsteers4 at gmail.com:

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> On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 15:04, sbungay <> sbungay at smartsonsite.com> > wrote:
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>>    I've been struggling with dragging data from a TreeView to a Text 
>>  Area, and I THINK I've found the source of the frustration.
>>  
>>     Both the TreeView and TextArea have Tracking enabled. So everything 
>>  is OK there.
>>  
>>     The Drag begins and the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y coordinates are given 
>>  relative to where it was in the TreeView when that event fires. Lets say 
>>  the values are, respectively, 21 and 88. Dragging the text from the 
>>  TreeView to the position in the TextArea where it needs to be inserted 
>>  it ALWAYS inserts it in the wrong spot, and the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y 
>>  remain set at 21 and 88, which explains why insertion did not take place 
>>  at the desired location.
>>  
>>    Shouldn't the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y be updated to the coordinates of the 
>>  pointer relative to the control over which the drop occurred?
>>  
>>  -- 
>>  Steve.
>>
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> No because Mouse.X and Mouse.Y are object relative positions.so belong to the calling objects Drag event
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> See Drag.X and Drag.Y
>
> Or use Mouse.ScreenX , Mouse.ScreenY with the dropped objects screen positions.
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> Dim iDropRelativeMouseX = Mouse.ScreenX - MyDroppedControl.ScreenX
> Dim iDropRelativeMouseY = Mouse.ScreenY - MyDroppedControl.ScreenY
>
> BruceS
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