checking mouseclicks... [bubba especially for you]

[doubleanti]

i use 0x33 function 5 and 6 for mouseclicks. but i get nothing in the bx [for number of clicks] on return. i have a continuous polling loop for this, and the coordinate values are fine... so checking for press and release within a given bounds works, except that those coordinates stay on each subsequent call until another click displaces them. here's some of my code... please forgive the shorthands... [bubba you know about it...]

// snippet 2
/***************************** press *******************************************

This function retrieves the button press data.

*******************************************************************************/

  vo HE::MF::press (vo)
  {
    for (un u0 = 0; u0 < 3; u0++)
    {
      __dpmi_regs io;

      io.x.ax = 0x0005;
      io.x.bx = u0;
      __dpmi_int (0x33, &io);

      HE::MF::VARS::press_n [u0] = io.x.bx >> 3;
      HE::MF::VARS::press_x [u0] = io.x.cx >> 3;
      HE::MF::VARS::press_y [u0] = io.x.dx >> 3;
    }
  }

/***************************** release *****************************************

This function retrieves the button release data.

*******************************************************************************/

  vo HE::MF::release (vo)
  {
    for (un u0 = 0; u0 < 3; u0++)
    {
      __dpmi_regs io;

      io.x.ax = 0x0006;
      io.x.bx = u0;
      __dpmi_int (0x33, &io);

      HE::MF::VARS::rel_n [u0] = io.x.bx >> 3;
      HE::MF::VARS::rel_x [u0] = io.x.cx >> 3;
      HE::MF::VARS::rel_y [u0] = io.x.dx >> 3;
    }
  }

i would just not have a continuous polling loop but i would still need to check for clicks and stop checking upon a release [which might be difficult and tedius if i can find out why bx is returning nothing]. i appreciate any help you can give... thank you very much...

[doubleanti]

and here's...

// snippet 1
/***************************** button_bounds_check *****************************

This function returns 1 if the mouse position is within the passed boundaries.
Else it returns zero.

*******************************************************************************/

  un F5::PROTOCOL::button_bounds_check (un xl, un yl, un xh, un yh)
  {
    if ( (MX_POS <  xl) ||
         (MX_POS >= xh) ||
         (MY_POS <  yl) ||
         (MY_POS >= yh) ) return (0);
    else                  return (1);
  }

/***************************** check_click *************************************

This function returns 1 if a button has been clicked [and released] within the
boundaries.  It's used to get that nice user interface feel.

*******************************************************************************/

  un F5::PROTOCOL::check_click (un xl, un yl, un xh, un yh, un btn_stat)
  {
    un ox, oy;

    HE::MF::b_check ();
//    if (M_BTN)
    {
      HE::MF::press ();
      HE::MF::release ();
    }

//    if (HE::MF::VARS::press_n [btn_stat] == 0) return (0);

    ox = MX_POS;
    oy = MY_POS;

    MX_POS = HE::MF::VARS::press_x [btn_stat];
    MY_POS = HE::MF::VARS::press_y [btn_stat];

    if (F5::PROTOCOL::button_bounds_check (xl, yl, xh, yh) == 0)
    {
      MX_POS = ox;
      MY_POS = oy;
      return (0);
    }

    MX_POS = HE::MF::VARS::rel_x [btn_stat];
    MY_POS = HE::MF::VARS::rel_y [btn_stat];
    if (F5::PROTOCOL::button_bounds_check (xl, yl, xh, yh) == 0)
    {
      MX_POS = ox;
      MY_POS = oy;
      return (0);
    }

    relpress ();

    for (un u0 = 0; u0 < 4; u0++)
    {
      HE::MF::VARS::press_n [u0] = 0;
      HE::MF::VARS::press_x [u0] = 0;
      HE::MF::VARS::press_y [u0] = 0;
      HE::MF::VARS::rel_n [u0] = 0;
      HE::MF::VARS::rel_x [u0] = 0;
      HE::MF::VARS::rel_y [u0] = 0;
    }

    return (1);
/*
//    if (button_bounds_check (xl, yl, xh, yh) == 0) return (0);

    //  new click, non-source to source, + must be within bounds
    HE::MF::b_check ();
    if ((M_BTN == btn_stat))
    {
      //  wait until non-source
      while (M_BTN == btn_stat)
      {
        HE::MF::b_check ();             //  update status, and graphics
        F5::OUTPUT::standard_graphics_loop (0);
      }

      //  if still in bounds success, if out during non-source, fail
      if (button_bounds_check (xl, yl, xh, yh)) return (1);
      else return (0);
    }
    //  if not on status after btn switch, or not within bounds after btn switch
    else return (0);
*/
  }

it complains about IMG tags, and i don't know why, i guess it was just too much...

[doubleanti]

okay figured out the problem, trashing bx [button press] data by shifting... hehe...

and about the IMG tags, we talked about that on the mod board, so that's resolved, and yes smiles are treated as IMG tags apparently...

and about this... so now i can't get the interface to work correctly... still working, and still need help. can anyone answer? thanks...

/*edit by doubleanti, moved by modship for sake of traffic advant. previously to this it was on the DOS board */