status of the left button and right mouse with a script arexx?

Hello,

do you know the status of the left button and right mouse with a script arexx?

thank you

@sinisrus

What application are you writing a script for?

A generic ARexx script will have no way to know anything about mouse events.

But some appliactions have calback mechanisms to send such infor to their scripts

Examples include many gfx apps SketchBlock, ImageFX, PPaint etc. The exact technique varoes from application to application , so there is little point in answering till we know what your are scripting.

For rxmui soft using microbe3d.library

Ils it possible ?

@sinisrus

It might be I'm not familar with that software.

Edit the original post title to add microbe3D in the title, that way the author has more chnace to see it and help you.

made in this is not specific to the library microbe3D

for example if I want to recovered the status of the mouse buttons from the workbench is that possible with arexx script?

@sinisrus

I don't think so, not without some 'helper commodity', to detect such and send your script messages.

yet it is possible to have the x, y mouse to see script below:
this is not possible with the same technique?

/*********************************************************************/
Get_MouseX: procedure

intui = showlist(l, "intuition.library",, a)
call forbid()
screen = next(intui, 56) /* IntuitionBase->ActiveScreen */
mousex = c2d(import(offset(screen, 18), 2)) /* Screen->MouseX */
call permit();

RETURN mousex
/*********************************************************************/

@sinisrus

Err, poking round in IntuitionBase is a bad idea in a C program (with the exception of the first few entries) and should only be done by Locking Intuition base, not calling Forbid() Permit() how can you even call those from meaningfully from Rexx? When it relies on message passing to find commands?

But even if you insist it's okay, you can't get the qualifiers that way as they are passed with the events, you need a window to recieve the events or some commodity.

Surely if you are using rxmui that must provide access to window events etc?

Otherwise it's time to start programming in C.

@broadblues

Yes it is time spent in another language
Hollywood seems more suited to my needs me

thank you for your help

@sinisrus

You need to get the messages from UserPort of the window, but you can't use WaitPort(), becouse the window might not be yours, if your reading from ActiveWindow, and if it's not your you might steal the message from, other programs, it's not a good idea at all.

What you're trying to do it, is like trying to unlock a door using an ice-cream.