Object_OnMouseEnterEx sub doesn't work...

... neither do other subs

Published on May 12, 2005 By Fix In DesktopX

Hello !
I've created several objects. One of them contains a script that should control all the other objects. The name of the other objects is "Update_1", "Update_2", "Update_3", etc.
The following script just doesn't do anything, and I can't understand why :

'OnMouseEnter subs
Sub Object_OnMouseEnterEx(Obj)
If InStr(Obj.Name,"Update") <> 0 Then
ObjNum = Right(Obj.Name,1)
If DesktopX.Object("Update_" & ObjNum) = "away" Then
DesktopX.Object("Update_" & ObjNum).State = "over"
SetUpdateFrequencyText(ObjNum)
End If
End If
End Sub

If you want to help me and download these little objects, please click here : http://www.contedefaits.com/Web_Objects.desktop and you'll see that nothing happens when you mouse over / mouse away / click on any of the little black bars on the desktop (they should normally set the update frequency of the object).

Thank you very much in advance, and have a good day everyone !

Comments

Fix

on May 12, 2005

Sorry, please read :
If DesktopX.Object("Update_" & ObjNum).State = "away" Then
etc...

By the way, shouldn't DesktopX.Object("Obj.Name).State = "away" work too ? Or simply Obj.State ?
I've tried all I can think of, but nothing works... Please help me !
Thanx.

thomassen

on May 12, 2005

The reason why it doesn't work is because there is not event availibe in DX for that. Yes I know, annoying isn't it?

But the workaround isn't all that bad or hard:

Sub Object_OnStateChangeEx(state)
    If state = "Mouse over" Then
        'Mouse over code here
    End If
End Sub

thomassen

on May 12, 2005

Of course, you have to add the check for what object calls the event.

Fix

on May 12, 2005

Sorry but I don't understand what you mean : since DX 3.0, the Sub Object_OnMouseEnterEx(Obj) exists (event if it's not documented yet). For example, Tiggz (I'm a faaaaaaaaaan, but he, I'm not the only one, right ?) uses it in his last OMNI objects (dual weather, for example).
So what am I doing wrong ?
Thanx very much.

thomassen

on May 12, 2005

Ah, yes it does exist. Even in the documentation. Hm.. Didn't notice that.

thomassen

on May 12, 2005

Right, I had a look at your object. The reason why nothing happends is that the *Ex function gets tha messages from the child objects of the objects containing the script.
In your widget you got an object named "scripts" to handle the scripting. However, none of your other objects passess any messages on to the "scripts" object because none of them is set as child to it. Select your other object, right-click, go "Set Parent" then select "scripts". Then everything starts to come to life.

Fix

on May 12, 2005

Wow, thank you very much thomassen. At least you've learnt something too

thomassen

on May 12, 2005

hehe
Yes, I did.

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