The right and left click buttons

[chalcids]

I want to write a morse code program so when i right click a dash appears and when i left click i get a dot and the well the space bar does a space. I want it to type out messages. Is this possible?

[Raknarg]

You can look into the Mouse module in the documentation.

[Aange10]

It is indeed very possible.

[Raknarg]

actually, just to make it simple:

var mx, my, mb : int

Mouse.Where (mx, my, mb)

When you use this code, the procedure will take in three variable and return the mouse's current status. Respectively the x position, y position relative to the screen, and the current button being pressed (0 for none, 1 for left, 10 for middle wheel and 100 for right, I believe)

[chalcids]

but what does have to do with the buttons i want it to when i left click in the program to put a dot on the line on the screen like morse code

[Tony]

It has to do with the

chalcids @ Wed May 30, 2012 12:53 pm wrote:

i left click

part.

[chalcids]

like what is wrong with that part like is there not a button command for that at all

[Tony]

That sentence was terrible. Were you trying to ask a question?

[chalcids]

i want to know how to use the mouse buttons ie the left click, scroll and right button to do something like when i left click a dot appears when i scroll a space appears and when i right click a - appears.

[Tony]

Something like

code:

loop    get_click_states    if ( click_states include left_click) then       draw_dot    end if end loop

[chalcids]

yeah do you the rest of the code because it says i need to declare some variables?

[Aange10]

chalcids @ 30/5/2012, 4:23 pm wrote:

yeah do you the rest of the code because it says i need to declare some variables?

You need to do the code yourself.

They told you that if you put in three variables to Mouse.Where() that is will respectively output the X,Y, and button states of the mouse.

You were also told that if the button state was 0 then nothing was being pressed, if the state was 1 that it was being left click, if the state was 10 it was being middle clicked, and if the state was 100 it was being right clicked.

So what you've learned:
- How to get the X position of the mouse.
- How to get the Y position of the mouse.
- How to see which button is being pressed.


Now YOU right the code, and if you get stuck we can help. But stuck doesn't mean "Okay I know what i want to do, now tell me how to do everything I don't have."

[chalcids]

But why do i need that
Tony gave me what i wanted i just to know how to declare the variables he used.

[Tony]

in case that wasn't obvious, none of what I posted was supposed to be working code; it just resembles code to help you read and inspire ideas for how to approach the problem.

You can't just copy-paste blocks of code together, it will not work. Among other reasons, it's an infinite loop and will never give up control to any of the other code you end up pasting in.

[Luffy123]

chalcids @ Wed May 30, 2012 5:48 pm wrote:

But why do i need that
Tony gave me what i wanted i just to know how to declare the variables he used.

He didn't give you anything. Just showed you the format it should be in.

Mouse.Where returns the button that is clicked.

So you should know what you have to do from there. Check what button was clicked and do what you want to do with it.