Re: acceptsMouseMovedEvents?

FROM : glenn andreas
DATE : Wed Apr 27 23:26:23 2005

On Apr 27, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Brian O'Brien wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
>

>> On 4/27/05, Brian O'Brien <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>>
>>> On Apr 27, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Brian O'Brien wrote:
>>>

>>>> In my subclass of NSImageView I want to receive mouse move events.
>>>> I defined the method acceptsMouseMovedEvents and returned true.
>>>> I also defined the method - (void)mouseMoved:(NSEvent *)theEvent
>>>> and put an NSLog message in that function. However I get no mouse
>>>> motion events.
>>>>

>>>
>>> in my init I did
>>> [[self window] setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:YES];

>>
>> While inside you're init method, [self window[ cannot possibly be
>> returning anything other than nil. That is, if the view's still being
>> init'ed, it can't have been placed in a superview yet.
>>

> I got tracking rects working and I also got mouseEntered and
> mouseExited events...
> I figured I could add [[self window] setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:YES]
> in the
> entered event and turn them off in the exited event... but still no
> mouseMoved events...
>


I seem to remember (but my memory could be faulty on this one) that you
need to be the first responder to get the mouse moved events (this may
have been to get the modifier changed flags though - it's all a bit
blurry).

Glenn Andreas                      <email_removed> 
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