VS:MouseDown: Difference between revisions

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Return TRUE if a mouse down event has occurred within the active document window.

FUNCTION MouseDown(
          VAR pX,pY   :REAL) : BOOLEAN;

def vs.MouseDown():
    return (bool, (px, py))

p

REAL

Coordinates of mouse click.

REPEAT
UNTIL MouseDown(x1,y1);
REPEAT
UNTIL MouseDown(x2,y2);
MoveTo(x1,y1);
LineTo(x2,y2);

down = False
while not down:
    down, pt = vs.MouseDown()  # pt is a tuple (x, y)

vs.AlrtDialog(str(pt))

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 <desc>
-Function MouseDown returns TRUE if a mouse down event has occurred within the active document window.
+Return TRUE if a mouse down event has occurred within the active document window.
-Remark for VW2014 python: return value for the point is always an empty tuple (0, 0)
 </desc>
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 p
 REAL
-Returns coordinates of mouse click.
+Coordinates of mouse click.
+Remark for VW2014 python: Always an empty tuple (0, 0) - use GetMouse() if down == True
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