Action Statement

Control processing of responses to input from a pointing device.

make point disposition [mouse|touchscreen] {normal|drop}

mouse

Affect the disposition of the mouse input.

touchscreen

Affect the disposition of the touchscreen input.

normal

ESL will respond when it receives input from the pointing device.

drop

ESL will ignore any input received. No input is taken until the disposition is returned to normal. At that time, each input received while drop was in effect is processed (that is, input is buffered).

Description

This statement affects input from any specified pointing device.

This statement only affects responses taken to objects other than dialog objects and other window objects. Its use is, therefore, limited in windowed applications.

The keyword touchscreen is valid only for touchscreen applications.

If you do not specify either mouse or touchscreen, the specified disposition affects all pointing devices.

Example

 

response to char "" from Host

 make point disposition mouse drop

 action UseAgain is

 ...

 make point disposition normal

See Also

make string disposition Action Statement

open and close Action Statements