Looking for recurring gui event hook
by Stephen Zepp · in Torque Game Engine · 06/17/2004 (6:55 pm) · 6 replies
I'm trying to find a recurring event that I can tie into via script that occurs every tick, related to GUI's. Every one that I can find seems to be a "single action" state change, instead of a "repeat until mouse leaves gui" type of event.
Specifically, I want to write a script that sends a command to the server every tick that the mouse is within that guicntrl...I've used our nifty new full text search feature, but everything I can find is purely "on enter" and "on exit" based--what I'm really looking for is a way to catch mMouseOver, but catch it every tick that the mouse is over a screen area.
Any thoughts? This will be used for providing continuous inputs to my orbit cam. For example, when the mouse is moved to the left side of the window/screen, the orbit camera will rotate smoothly and continuously until the mouse is moved back towards the middle. I already have the single tick input working, but I want to call it continuously until the mouse leaves that section of the screen.
TIA!
Specifically, I want to write a script that sends a command to the server every tick that the mouse is within that guicntrl...I've used our nifty new full text search feature, but everything I can find is purely "on enter" and "on exit" based--what I'm really looking for is a way to catch mMouseOver, but catch it every tick that the mouse is over a screen area.
Any thoughts? This will be used for providing continuous inputs to my orbit cam. For example, when the mouse is moved to the left side of the window/screen, the orbit camera will rotate smoothly and continuously until the mouse is moved back towards the middle. I already have the single tick input working, but I want to call it continuously until the mouse leaves that section of the screen.
TIA!
#2
06/17/2004 (9:23 pm)
Could look in making a script hook for onMouseMove and tracking that.
#3
@Sebastien: Not a bad idea, except that if the mouse enters the gui block, and then stays there with no movement, the camera control function will still be called until the mouse leaves.
06/18/2004 (3:42 am)
@Ben: actually that occurred to me late last night, after I wasn't able to find any recurring hooks on my own, but it would do what we need, just not very elegantly, hehe. I was wondering if there was a timed/looped event triggered by the sim somewhere before I dig into a schedule solution.@Sebastien: Not a bad idea, except that if the mouse enters the gui block, and then stays there with no movement, the camera control function will still be called until the mouse leaves.
#4
Then catch the GuiEvent onMouseLeave and have it cancel the schedule.
06/18/2004 (8:17 am)
Catch the GuiEvent onMouseEnter and have it start a schedule which calls a different function every tick which will turn notify your server.Then catch the GuiEvent onMouseLeave and have it cancel the schedule.
#6
06/18/2004 (8:38 am)
There isnt really a single function thats called every update. Because by default the GUI's use a dirty region update mechanism. So in theory, some controls dont get asked to redraw. 
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