right click ?

[human fly]

what is it that determines that it is RIGHT click,
rather than left-click, that triggers the event?

the demo file is DEMO Popup window, with method:
customMouseDown

simple thing i want to do: have a graphic rectangle
with a mouseDown event.

chheeeerzzz!

[Mr.ToR]

customMouseDown = function(Component, MouseEvent)
if MouseEvent.mods:isLeftButtonDown() then
-- do something
elseif MouseEvent.mods:isRightButtonDown() then	
-- do something else
end

[human fly]

ok, thanks, but what if left and right are not mentioned,
like in that demo?

what if it is ‘isPopupMenu’ ? ie:

if event.mods:isPopupMenu() then
ret = m:show(0,0,0,0)

[human fly]

hey it works! but as:

if event.mods:isLeftButtonDown() then

MouseEvent.mods gives error:
‘no static ‘mods’ in class ‘MouseEvent’

thanks. could you give a link to sources for this?
what should i be reading? ie: re: event.mods and
MouseEvent.

haven’t looked into any of this at all.
cheers!

[human fly]

strange thing, this MouseDown Callback:
i am able to exclude the event.mods condition and
substitute with

...
ret = m:show(0,0,0,50)
if ret ~= 0 then...

(no mention of the mouse event)
(with a popup) and it works. what is ‘ret’?

and it works also with a blank custom component.
but if i make it an ‘ordinary’ mousedown-type
method, nothing happens. experimenting with this
mouse callback thing, and with custom component,
as opposed to having a button calling the function.

ie: not working with component:setProperty, calling
a tab, in a form that works elsewhere. am trying to
establish what the distinction is.

[Mr.ToR]

human fly,

my code is correct.

it doesn’t have to be ‘event.mods’ or ‘MouseEvent.mods’
actually, it can be any variable that is declared in the function.
so basically

customMouseDown = function(Component, MouseEvent)
if MouseEvent.mods:isLeftButtonDown() then
-- do something
elseif MouseEvent.mods:isRightButtonDown() then	
-- do something else
end

and

customMouseDown = function(Component, CatEvent)
if CatEvent.mods:isLeftButtonDown() then
-- do something
elseif CatEvent.mods:isRightButtonDown() then	
-- do something else
end

are the same thing.

Name of the variable is irrelevant. They are just there to serve as an interface between Ctrlr/juce and lua.

We have here a method called customMouseDown that passes two variables to a lua function called customMouseDown and I called those variables Component and CatEvent. These variables’ order is important just like in any function but you can call them whatever you want.

[human fly]

ok, yes that is filtering through 😉
(far be it for me to question..)
i was confused by isLeft.. or isRight..
where is that defined?

so i left it undefined to see what happens.
and it does it with either click.

takes a long time to get responses on this
forum – if at all.

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