Re: The mouse is where, again?
Re: The mouse is where, again?
- Subject: Re: The mouse is where, again?
- From: "Hamish Allan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:59:53 +0000
On Jan 28, 2008 8:02 PM, Jayson Adams <email@hidden> 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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