AutoDesk: Thanks for dbl-click reactor. Now we need long-press reactor.

We also need these specific events for *individual* mouse buttons.

Time to catch up with SoftEngine's 1995 technology..... 8^o

 

one alternative is to implement triple-click

when a double-click reactor fires, wait a few hundred milliseconds to see if a third click occurs. watch out for calling the reactor more than once at a time. i would not suggest quintuple-clicks but i may go as far as a quad-click



after further development i chose another alternative to the triple-click. divide the screen up into sectors and determine the one in which the double-click occured. it's easy for a user to imagine where the sector boundaries are if it is logically arranged.

you can conceivably divide the screen into 12 sectors
each invoking different functions when a double-click occurs.
_________
| \__|__/ |
|_|__|__|_| <- screen (view using fixed width font)
| |__|__| |
|/___|___\|

four quadrants in the center of the screen and 8 around the perimeter are easily selected without actually seeing the boundaries.

try it!

 

Mataeux,

Are you telling me to put an "if" statement in my
reactor: if the click occured in this sector do this-
if in that sector do that?

That could be some powerful stuff if I could figure out how to
implement it.

Do you have any example code?


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Thanks,
Steve (Acad2005 Vanilla SP1)


one alternative is to implement triple-click

when a double-click reactor fires, wait a few hundred milliseconds to see if a third click occurs. watch out for calling the reactor more than once at a time. i would not suggest quintuple-clicks but i may go as far as a quad-click



after further development i chose another alternative to the triple-click. divide the screen up into sectors and determine the one in which the double-click occured. it's easy for a user to imagine where the sector boundaries are if it is logically arranged.

you can conceivably divide the screen into 12 sectors
each invoking different functions when a double-click occurs.
_________
| \__|__/ |
|_|__|__|_| <- screen (view using fixed width font)
| |__|__| |
|/___|___\|

four quadrants in the center of the screen and 8 around the perimeter are easily selected without actually seeing the boundaries.

try it!