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Re: Custom Dragging?

#15915
From: dwb
Date: Tue, 05 May 1987 16:54
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In article <1462@tekig4.TEK.COM> bradn@tekig4.UUCP (Bradford Needham) writes:
>The symptom I get is that if my dragCntl routine returns a nonzero
>value (to tell the control manager that I'm doing custom dragging),
>TrackControl returns 0 (saying that the mouse was released outside any
>interesting part of the control).
>
>Looking at the Inside Macintosh description of custom dragging, I don't
>see how the necessary information can possibly be communicated between
>TrackControl and a custom control.
>
>Has anyone successfully built custom dragging?  How did you do it?
	Yup.  Looks like you found the problem.  The solution I've taken
	is to always return 0 to TrackControl.  TrackControl then does
	a little bit of extra stuff, determines that the mouse button
	is up and returns the correct part code.
-- 
	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
	dwb@apple.com                   293-0752@408.MaBell
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Subject: Re: Custom Dragging?
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 12:54:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  5 12:54:43 1987
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Keywords: custom dragcntl control