Re: The mouse is where, again?

FROM : Sam Stigler
DATE : Tue Jan 29 01:31:58 2008

This has gone on long enough.  I honestly don't care who's right, but 
can you please take this off-list?

Thank you very much,

Sam


On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2008 8:02 PM, Jayson Adams <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> So yes, he was asking how you get the current mouse location, and was
>> believing there's no way to do it.

>
> Your willful disregard of the very next sentence after the bit you
> quoted does not serve to illuminate anything. Here, again, is the
> whole thing:
>

>> (C) How do I know where the mouse is, in the absence of (prior to
>> receiving) a mouse-related event?
>>
>> -- There is not, afaik, any Cocoa frameworks function or method that
>> gets the mouse location other than from a NSEvent. (It may exist 
>> and I
>> just haven't found it.)
>>
>> -- Getting the current mouse location using Carbon (if there is a
>> function for that) isn't the answer, because that's going to tell me
>> where the mouse is *right now in real time*, while the information I
>> need is where the mouse is *synchronized with the event stream*. (If
>> I'm about to receive a flood of mouseMoved: or mouseDragged: 
>> messages,
>> I want to know where the mouse is before them, not after. Unreceived
>> messages represent the future, I'm still in the present.)

>
> I know you think that the real-time location is all that matters, but
> you are wrong, and I think it's important to make that plain, because
> you seem to be seeking to obfuscate it.
>
> Hamish
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