zuMi needs a hand with yab

Atomozero

"zumi asked in the Telegram channel if anyone can help him with this problem, @clasqm do you know how to help him?"

Another script in the corrections/enhancements queue, but this time I would need the help of some yab devs, if they still exist.

I managed to open the popup menu over almost any widget, but I keep having trouble with lists. The Y position I get from the mouse message$ is not relative to the list's scroll view (for example, in the small window at the beginning of the video I expect a value between 0 and 150, the value returned by view get scroll-list height), but to the virtual size of the list (with long lists I get Y coordinates >> 15k). Any ideas on how to get the apparent position of the mouse in that view? Thanx in advance.

clasqm

OK, we know the expected maximum value, we know the value we got ... This should get us close enough.

listheight = 15237
windowheight = 200
while (listheight > windowheight)
	 listheight = listheight - windowheight
wend 
print listheight

clasqm

I had another look at the documentation. It should be possible to do this:

A$ = mouse message(“MainWindow”)

But that won’t work if you’ve slathered a widget over the view. Widgets get priority over views, and a list box is a widget.

So what I did above is just a workaround

zuMi

Hi Michel, thanks for you reply, I don't think it would be possible without the ability, as in SCROLLBAR, to get the vertical relative position of the thumb cursor in the scroll list view, and then use it to calculate the offset of the vertical mouse position in the scroll list view

zuMi

Btw I solved the puzzle breaking the game, I put a new empty window over the main window just for the amount of time necessary to take the mouse messages, so that window opens and closes in a blimp of an eye; it is still dirty as hell, but I can have my menu with secondary button at least

clasqm

zuMi That's hard core!

zuMi

Latest versions, added a fancy futile about window with glowing color and textedit colors sensitive to the haiku UI settings (at least the 18.2.2 version doesn't support to set textedit to use panel-background-color as with draw command