[Tutorial] How to use a mouse in your Turing programs

[Tony]

Flash and MSN weren't made with Turing

[MysticVegeta]

This can be done in VB right?

[Tony]

anything with Windows API access. VB is pretty simple, there are code sniplets available all over the place (MSDN?).

[The_Triangle]

what does Windows API access stand for?

And why doesnt turing have access to it ? Wouldnt it be so much easier... damn.. lol

[Tony]

no, it would make things unneccessary complicated - that's why.

you'd need to hook Turing into the OS, and perform all those low level operations. Not something you teach highschool students.. or want them to be able to use for that matter.

Just imagine - program calls a command to make mouse cursor invisible, then quits. Oh damn it, you've just lost your mouse until you reboot or write another program to fix things.

[[Gandalf]]

API stands for Application Program Inferface.

[Dan]

Tony wrote:

Just imagine - program calls a command to make mouse cursor invisible, then quits. Oh damn it, you've just lost your mouse until you reboot or write another program to fix things.

And thats why VB is a script kiddys dream.

[[Gandalf]]

Maybe if you edited the executable, and changed the cursor there? Just an idea...

[Tony]

you could Sys.Exec() VB programs that change cursors for you.

[progammin_nub]

%The status of my mouse
buttonwait ("down", mx, my, buttonnumber, buttondown)

Hello,
I am just wondering for the mouse status for my program. When I specify "down", will Turing automatically tells itself to wait for the button to be pressed?

[Guest]

You forgot to mention Multi-Button, since it wasn't out when you posted this I guess. As you would assume, Multi-Button allows left click, right click, and middle click on Windows (possibly Mac I don't know). At the top of your program, declare:

code:

Mouse.ButtonChoose("multibutton")

Now you should set your mouse variables, here's my example:

code:

var x, y, button, none, left, middle, right : int %Numbers below represent button values none := 0 left := 1 middle := 10 right := 100

Next you must locate your mouse and status, usually in a loop.
Here I will display current mouse information:

code:

loop     Mouse.Where (x, y, button)     locate (1, 1)     put "X:", x, " Y:", y     if button = none then         put "NOTHING ", button     elsif button = left then         put "LEFT ", button     elsif button = middle then         put "MIDDLE ", button     elsif button = right then         put "RIGHT ", button     end if end loop

Put those three pieces of code together to have a fully functional multi-button mouse!

[gohabsgo007]

I want to know how to make a picture, uploaded from my computer, to move when the user clicks on it.

[Insectoid]

Easy. Upload a picture from the computer, check if the user clicks on it, then move it.

[gohabsgo007]