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Shoes button double and right clicks

From:

J. Kaiden

Date:

2011-06-16 @ 00:35

hey folks,

  wondering about capturing mouse double-clicks and right-clicks with shoes.
 i googled myself silly, and searched up, down and inside-out on this list,
but didn't find anything, so here goes...

  i can do this to capture quick double clicks, and it *mostly* works, but
it seems ridiculous...

###
Shoes.app do
btn = button("double-click me!"){|btn|
time = Time.now.to_i / 100.00
btn.click{
newtime = Time.now.to_i / 100.00
dif = newtime - time
if dif < 0.009
p "double-clicked"
        time = Time.now.to_i / 100.00
else
        time = Time.now.to_i / 100.00
end
}
}
end
###

  ... and right clicks are completely beyond me (i'm a hobbyist hack at
best...)  so - is there an easy way to capture double and right clicks that
i'm missing?  when i look at btn.methods, i see pretty much the same i see
for everything...  am i missing something terribly obvious?  is there a way
to see what's going on with the mouse like there is with a key-press?:

# sample21.rb
Shoes.app :width => 250, :height => 40 do
  @info = para 'NO KEY is PRESSED.'
  keypress{|key| @info.text = "#{key.inspect} was PRESSED."}
end

# (thanks ashbb for the turorial-note http://shoes-tutorial-note.heroku.com/
)

  the block variable to the #click method is (as far as i can tell) the
button itself, is there somewhere in the shoes source (my knees are shaking
just thinking of it) that i should take a look to see if i can pick up
double and right-clicks?

  any ideas greatly appreciated,

  -j

Hi Jake,

Sorry, Shoes button elements can only recognize a-left-mouse-click.
So, please create your own button. ;-)

For example, how about the following?

# left/right click
# Look at this:  http://shoes.heroku.com/manual/App.html#mouse

Shoes.app do
  my_button = stack width: 200 do
    background yellow, curve: 10
    para 'left or right click me', align: 'center'
  end
  my_button.click do
    alert "clicked: #{mouse.first}"
  end
end

# double click

Shoes.app do
  my_button = stack width: 150 do
    background yellow, curve: 10
    para 'double click me', align: 'center'
  end
  _t = t = 0
  my_button.click do
    t = Time.now.to_i
    alert 'double clicked' if _t == t
    _t = t
  end
end

Enjoy,
ashbb

ashbb-

  the #mouse method was just what i was looking for!  i managed to miss it
in the manual...  thanks again!

  cheers,

  - j