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Scripting Tutorial - Lesson 15: (Advanced) Using Mouse Controls With Multiple Classes

This document discusses using mouse controls to select and manipulate multiple class objects in a script. It explains how to generalize the mouseDown function to work with all objects in an Objects table rather than a single object. When the mouse is clicked down, it checks each object to see if it was clicked within, tracks that object if so, and moves it to the front of the Objects table. TrackOffset variables are used to avoid objects jumping when clicked off-center. With these changes, multiple objects can now be selected and controlled using either mouse or keyboard. The document encourages extending this to include other object types as well.

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Scripting Tutorial - Lesson 15: (Advanced) Using Mouse Controls With Multiple Classes

This document discusses using mouse controls to select and manipulate multiple class objects in a script. It explains how to generalize the mouseDown function to work with all objects in an Objects table rather than a single object. When the mouse is clicked down, it checks each object to see if it was clicked within, tracks that object if so, and moves it to the front of the Objects table. TrackOffset variables are used to avoid objects jumping when clicked off-center. With these changes, multiple objects can now be selected and controlled using either mouse or keyboard. The document encourages extending this to include other object types as well.

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Scripting Tutorial - Lesson 15: (Advanced) Using Mouse Controls with Multiple Classes
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In lesson 14 we saw how to use Keyboard controls to select and work with multiple class objects. In this final lesson, we extend our mouse controls in the same way. Most of what we need has already been put in place using the TrackedObject variable. All that is really needed is to generalize the mouseDown function to work with out Objects table rather than the specific case of the Square previously defined. We need to study the various parts of the mouseDown function closely in order to understand what is happening here. The function begins just as tabKey did, with a loop through the objects in the Objects table, allocating a local variable obj to each in turn. As we might expect from previous mouse work, if the mouse down occurs within a particular object (using the contains function) then that becomes our selected object to be Tracked. As before, first release it if the object was

function on.mouseDown(x,y) for i = #Objects, 1, -1 do local obj = Objects[i]

already selected so we know what state we are in. Then we define TrackedObject as obj, and indicate that it is selected. The next two lines define two new global variables called TrackOffsetx and TrackOffsety. You may have noticed that if we click on an object somewhere other than the center, the object is inclined to jump to place the center under the mouse. These TrackedOffset values serve to avoid this little jump. They should initially be defined as zero in our on.resize function so that they exist when the page is created and changed. Back to tracking multiple objects. The table.remove and table.insert commands serve to release any previous selected object and replace with the current one essentially moving it to prime position in the table. This has the effect desired the object being clicked on becomes the selected (Tracked)

if obj:contains(x, y) then if TrackedObject ~= nil then TrackedObject.selected = false end TrackedObject = obj obj.selected = true TrackOffsetx = TrackedObject.x -x TrackOffsety = TrackedObject.y y table.remove(Objects, i) table.insert(Objects, obj) platform.window:invalidate() break end end end function on.mouseUp(x,y) if TrackedObject ~= nil then TrackedObject.selected = false end TrackedObject = nil end function on.mouseMove(x,y) if TrackedObject ~= nil then TrackedObject.x = x + TrackOffsetx TrackedObject.y = y + TrackOffsety platform.window:invalidate() end end

object and all is well. Only one other change is made to mouseMove and that is simply to include the TrackOffset values referred to previously. Copy this code into script_tut14.lua and you now have completed your mission. Two objects may now be selected and controlled by either mouse or keyboard!

I would suggest that you now extend this script to include other objects. Simply define these and then insert their definition into the Objects table and you will be able to control them just as easily as you control the square and the circle. Multiple images will work just as well. Time then, perhaps, to go back to the Shape Patterns document featured in lesson 11 and think about how you may now create your own rich and powerful documents which work equally well with both handheld and computer.

Click to see what such a document might look like

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