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Re: Getting Mouse Moved Events

Bruce,

While it may be there, it is not easy to find. I spend days searching the docs. The setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents I located in 5 minutes. Nowhere in the docs for NSView, NSWindow, in the overview for handling mouse events in views, or the other 10 hits in the searches was the need for first responder mentioned. Now that I know what to look for I am sure I could find it. And, had I read the docs cover to cover I am sure I would have seen it, from your comments. But, like most people I have not read all the docs, and have to rely on searches. As noted in the original post I worked for years on NeXTStep and have mostly been able to leverage that in this environment.

Mostly I am annoied that the requirement to be first responder exists at all. Having to notify the window that you want these events makes sense from an efficiency point of view, but often (in my cases anyway) I want to track the mouse moved to do highlighting in places where I am NOT the first responder.

If you were not trying to chastise me, I apologize for the similar tone in the above.

Michael


On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Bruce Veazie wrote:

Actually, the whole mouse event thing is well-documented, including the first responder requirements and accepting mousemoved events.

Look in your Cocoa docs under Basic Event Handling.

From: Michael Latta <email@hidden>

Matthew,

Thanks for the pointer on needing to be first responder. This is no
where in the documentation!!

This also REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks!! I wanted to track the mouse
even when not the active application to do some highlighting. I guess
I will need to try tracking regions/rectangles. If you know of
restrictions on that that are not document please let me know to reduce
the blood on the brick wall (from my head).

Michael

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