New proposition for Mouse Move events

ar2rsawseen

Hello guys,

I just implemented mouse button support for QT and WinRT Desktop

And I want to suggest one more thing, that might possible break some backwards compatibilities.

Basically currently mouse move is dispatched only when mouse button is pressed.

I want to try to dispatch mouse move events on desktop without the need of pressing the button.

So inside mouse move event you would be able to check button and do some hover effects.

On mobile devices mouse events will automatically be dispatched with left button pressed.

So if have have something draggable in your app, that you do not start on mouse down (which is unlikely, but possible) but drag it on mouse move directly, on desktops it will be dragging automatically without clicking mouse.

I think it is an ok sacrifice for the transition.

Let me know what you think

pie

@ar2rsawseen that would be an improvement, I can't see any drawbacks at this time.
Do you think it's possible to enable mouse wheel events too?

Thank you!

ar2rsawseen

@pie there are already mouse wheel events:
http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Sprite/MOUSE_WHEEL

by @john26 suggestion, I've created mouse hover event

so mouse move is dispatched when mouse moves and any button is pressed and mouse hover is dispatched only on desktops, when mouse moves and no button is pressed

think that will work well

keszegh

sounds good

pie

Oh I totally missed it! Thanks

SinisterSoft

How about mouse on Android, etc ?

ar2rsawseen

Does anybody really need it?
If yes, then I could do the same, question is how to attach mouse to Android?

SinisterSoft

It will make it so the same game - mouse click and point will also work on Android TV.

EG: new Razer Android TV game system will have a keyboard and mouse add-on...

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-controllers/razer-turret

pie

With an usb otg cable many Android devices like phones and tablets can use mouse and keyboard

john26

Thanks for doing this work, @ar2rsawseen, I think the mutually exclusive approach is the best, either MOUSE_MOVE or MOUSE_HOVER but not both.

keszegh

and right click is implemented too already?

ar2rsawseen

yes and wheel click

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen, where are these hover and right mouse events documented?

ar2rsawseen

You mean like:
http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Sprite/Event.MOUSE_HOVER#Event.MOUSE_HOVER

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Sprite/Event.MOUSE_DOWN#Event.MOUSE_DOWN

keszegh

right. i think i tend to ask such questions.
perhaps these parts of the reference should be linked to where input events are explained:
http://docs.giderosmobile.com/events.htm