Re: How to "capture" the mouse

FROM : Vance
DATE : Fri Feb 01 22:55:22 2008

I see a huge performance degradation  with this method.

Does anyone know how is this implemented with drag/drop.

I see the application keeps receiving drag messages, even when the mouse
pointer is outside the window, until the mouse up event fires.

Thanks!

Vance wrote:
> j o a r wrote:

>>
>> On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Vance wrote:
>>

>>> Now, when the user clicks anywhere outside the status bar, the
>>> application needs to Hide the window.
>>> On what even do I hide the window? mouseDown or any other mouse
>>> related NSResponder event does not get called when it occurs outside
>>> of the view client area.

>>
>>
>> Why do you need to open a window, why not just use a regular menu
>> with a custom view? One obvious answer to that question might be that
>> you need to support versions of Mac OS X prior to Leopard - Is that
>> the case?
>>
>> On 10.4 and later you can probably use the CGEventTap API to find the
>> information that you're looking for.
>>
>> j o a r
>>
>>

> Cool, thank you! Looks like what I needed, I will give it a try now
> and see how it works.
>
> I want it to provide a custom control on the system menu, that has one
> small icon and an arrow next to it. When the user clicks on the arrow,
> it changes between location that he is interested in monitoring at the
> moment. And when the user clicks on the icon, a custom window is shown
> with all the details. So it is just a much more convenient way to
> change locations. And of course this "arrow button" would be
> hidden/shown on the custom status bar as set in the preferences dialog
> to conserve space. Just want to make it as easy as possible to use and
> save clicks for some users.
>
> Thanks!
> Vance
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