xgetmouse
xgetmouse — get the mouse events and current position
Calling sequence
rep=xgetmouse([flag], [sel])
Parameters
| flag | : integer. If present, the mouse click event queue is not cleared when entering xgetmouse. |
| sel | : boolean vector [getmotion, getrelease]. default
value is [%t, %f] |
| rep | : vector of size 3, [x,y,ibutton]. |
Description
If the mouse pointer is located in the current graphics window, xgetmouse returns
in rep the current pointer position (x,y) and the value ibutton.
The ibutton value indicates the event type:
| - | if ibutton is -1 then a mouse motion' was
got (if getmotion has been set to %t) . |
| - | if ibutton is -5 -4 or -2 then left , middle or right button'
was released (if getrelease has been set to %t). |
| - | if ibutton is 0, 1 or 2, then the left,
middle or right button'> was pressed. If the mouse is not located
in the current graphics window, xgetmouse
waits. Moreover, xgetmouse works in a synchonous way, i.e. waits
for a mouse event (click or pointer movement) to occur before
exiting. |
Examples
xselect(); xbasc(); xsetech([0 0 1 1],[0 0 100 100])
xset("alufunction",6)
xtitle(" drawing a rectangle ")
[b,x0,y0]=xclick(); rep=[x0,y0,-1]; x=x0; y=y0;
xrect(x0,y0,x-x0,y-y0)
while rep(3)==-1 then
rep=xgetmouse(0)
xrect(x0,y0,x-x0,y0-y)
x=rep(1); y=rep(2);
xrect(x0,y0,x-x0,y0-y)
end
xset("alufunction",3)
See also
locate, xclick
