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Re: Knowing mouse pressed time?
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Re: Knowing mouse pressed time?


  • Subject: Re: Knowing mouse pressed time?
  • From: Gustavo Pizano <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:59:02 +0100

AHAH OK got it its one of the parameters when initializing the timer... ok... sorry for the noob question...
:D

On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:47 PM, email@hidden wrote:

> The performholdAction is your timer's fire method. You set the timer
> to fire after one second. If the mouse button goes up before that, you
> invalidate the timer and so performholdAction is never called.
>
> -f
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Gustavo Pizano
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>> So let me see if I get it.
>>
>> Start the timer on mouseDown... and invalidate it on mouseUp, got that.. now the performholdAction method that you declared in the example, I call it from within...... ???  because I guess in this method I will check if the time its already 1 sec and show the menu...
>>
>> Thanks for the help
>>
>> G..
>> PS.. I need a after lunch coffee!!
>> On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:24 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, haven't had my morning coffee yet. Of course, mouseUp should be:
>>>
>>> -(void)mouseUp:(NSEvent*)ev
>>> {
>>>  if ( [timer isValid] ) {
>>>      [timer invalidate];
>>>      [timer release];
>>>      timer = nil;
>>>      // perform single-click action
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, email@hidden
>>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Simple. Start a timer on mouse down, invalidate it on mouse up.
>>>> Something like this (written in mail):
>>>>
>>>> NSTimer *timer;
>>>>
>>>> -(void)mouseDown:(NSEvent*)ev
>>>> {
>>>>    timer=[[[NSTimer alloc] blah ...] retain];
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> -(void)mouseUp:(NSEvent*)ev
>>>> {
>>>>   if ( [timer isValid] ) {
>>>>       [timer invalidate];
>>>>       [timer release];
>>>>       timer = nil;
>>>>    } else {
>>>>     // perform single-click action
>>>>    }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> -(void)performHoldAction:(NSTimer*)tmr
>>>> {
>>>>   // pop up menu
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> -fabian
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Gustavo Pizano
>>>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>> I want to show a custom menu when the left click its being press for about 1 second on some of my components.. I have being searching and found a apple example where the use the
>>>>> + (void)startPeriodicEventsAfterDelay:(NSTimeInterval)delaySecondswithPeriod:(NSTimeInterval)periodSeconds
>>>>>
>>>>> and the stopPeriodicEvents class methods.  I tried implementing something like:
>>>>>
>>>>>        BOOL timerOn = YES;
>>>>>        NSPoint mouseLoc;
>>>>>        NSLog(@"before loop");
>>>>>        NSUInteger eventMask =  NSLeftMouseDownMask| NSLeftMouseUpMask | NSPeriodicMask;
>>>>>        while ((theEvent = [[self window] nextEventMatchingMask:eventMask])) {
>>>>>                NSLog(@"onLoop");
>>>>>                switch ([theEvent type]) {
>>>>>                        case NSLeftMouseUp:
>>>>>                                NSLog(@"up");
>>>>>                                timerOn = NO;
>>>>>                                [NSEvent stopPeriodicEvents];
>>>>>                                break;
>>>>>                        case NSLeftMouseDown:
>>>>>                                NSLog(@"down");
>>>>>                                [NSEvent startPeriodicEventsAfterDelay:0.1 withPeriod:0.1];
>>>>>                                break;
>>>>>
>>>>>                        default:
>>>>>                                break;
>>>>>                }
>>>>>        }
>>>>>
>>>>> But of course its completely wrong, it never go out from the loop... I tried a different approach usign a NSTimer, but found myself going nowhere also...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can somebody give me some advice, or where can I find info?, i have been looking around but hadn't found something... I know this should have been asked already, so there must  be a way to do this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance .. and happy new year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gustavo
>>>>>
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