Thread: scrolling when mouse is in the outskirt of a window

hi
I have a control with some dragable objects in it. When I drag
the selected objects to the uotskirt of the control it should scroll
in the apropriate direction. Now, I can't find a good way to do this
without stopping the messagesystem. I'd rather not use a loop
inside the windows procedure since then no additional
messages in the app wouldn't get thru before after the scrolling
(and there must be a simpler way than multithreading)..
Right now this scrollingbehaviour resides within the
WM_MOUSEMOVE message, but then I have to move the mouse
all the time for it to happend. What I would like to do is
something like:if (WM_LBUTTONDOWN and Cursor.x<WindowWidth-20) then scroll..

any ideas on how this may be accomplished in a good way...cause my ways have all sucked!

thanks a bunch
/btq

thats sounds like it would work, with a timer added in.
if you just put a little code in the WM_LBUTTONDOWN capture like this:

Code:

case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
    toggle=1;
    SetTimer(hwnd,ID_TIMER,200,NULL);

and this as well:

Code:

case WM_LBUTTONUP:
    toggle=0;

case WM_TIMER:
    if mouseposition correct
        scroll;

hmm...... it should probably be along those lines...

maybe, add a mousemove capture, which checks if the cursor is in the right spot, if the mouse button is pushed down (use the toggle variable), then set the timer. otherwise, kill the timer. that way you aren't flooded with timer messages. got it?

hey thanks!
works like a charm

/btq

thats amazing, since i have never even worked with dragging before
u couldn't send me the source could u? it sounds interesting

u couldn't send me the source could u? it sounds interesting

sure, I'll try sending it in a couple of hours when I've fixed some stuff..
you want the whole thing or just this part?


/btq

anything to do with dragging thanks. i have some recollection of using dragging with VB, but that was years ago, and a completely different ballpark. so yeah, just anything to do with dragging

cheers