Detect mouse UP

Dogi

Is there a way to detect when mouse button is being hold? like there is a click event but how do i know when its not being clicked anymore? for example doing something while mouse button is pressed on an object

Samir

Hi Dogi,

Not for the moment.
May be you should try theWindow.onKey event to check for mouse button press. For example checking for "VK_LBUTTON" for left mouse button press.

Tell me if it's working for your need.

Dogi

Samir In this example [Login to see the link] LBUTTON doesnt fire the event

Samir

Ok thank you for the feedback I will see how to implement it 👍🏻

Samir

It's now implemented in LuaRT 1.5.1

steve64

Is it possible in LuaRT 1.9.0 to get periodic events for ui.Button while the mouse left button is kept pressed ?

Samir

You can set a field in the button instance to keep track of the pressed status :

local btn = ui.Button(win, "Click Me")
btn.left_pressed = false

function btn:onMouseUp()
     btn.left_pressed = false
end

function btn:onMouseDown()
     btn.left_pressed = true
end

function btn:onLeftPress()
 -- do what you need to do
end

ui.run(win)

async(function()
   while win.visible do
        if btn.left_pressed then
              btn:onLeftPress()
        end
         sleep(300)
   end
end)

waitall()

steve64

Great idea, working fine!