Looking for advice-script

[Paul Pratt]

Hello,
I have added to my charsheet a window control that allows me to drag an "armor" link from a library reference, drop it, and have the shortcut cut information populate some pre-exisitng windows.

So far this works fine.

When you left mouse single click the shortcut it opens the shortcut information window, and on a left mouse double click clears the information that was set.

Middle mouse button clears the link from the control.

Again, this portion works, but not exactly how I wanted. I would like the control to be cleared of the link by single click middle mouse, and the information cleared either at the same time, or on a double click, leaving the left mouse button free to do default actions.

I have the script I am using below. How can I change it to do double middle click? My coding skills are "hacktastic" at best, basically I can get away with changing code to get the tweaks I want, this time I am a bit over my head.
Surprised I have it working quite frankly- I am just trying to make sure I am not doing something I can or should avoid doing while scripting too.

(thanks Foen, by searching the boards, some of your old posts lead me down the "click" path...lol you guys are great btw)

function onDrop(x, y, draginfo)
if draginfo.isType("shortcut") then
local link = draginfo.getShortcutData();
if link == "referencearmor" then
local sourcenode = draginfo.getDatabaseNode();

local type = sourcenode.getChild("type").getValue();
if type == "Light armor" or type == "Medium armor" or type == "Heavy armor" then
window.armorshortcut.setValue(draginfo.getShortcut Data());
window.armorname.setValue(sourcenode.getChild("nam e").getValue());
window.armormaxdexbonus.setValue(sourcenode.getChi ld("maxdex").getValue());
window.armorcheckpenalty.setValue(sourcenode.getCh ild("checkpenalty").getValue());
window.drarmor.setValue(sourcenode.getChild("dr"). getValue());
window.maxspeed.setValue(sourcenode.getChild("spee d30").getValue());
end

return true;
end
end
end


function onClickDown(button, x, y)
return true;
end

function onDoubleClick(button, x)
window.armorname.setValue(armorname, "");
window.armormaxdexbonus.setValue(armormaxdexbonus, 0);
window.armorcheckpenalty.setValue(armorcheckpenalt y,0);
window.drarmor.setValue(drarmor, 0);
window.maxspeed.setValue(maxspeed, 0);
return true;
end

[Foen]

I'd suggest you move the code from onDoubleClick to onClickRelease and check that the button parameter is set to 2 (middle button):

function onClickRelease(button, x, y)
  if button==2 then
    window.armorname.setValue(armorname, "");
    window.armormaxdexbonus.setValue(armormaxdexbonus, 0);
    window.armorcheckpenalty.setValue(armorcheckpenalt y,0);
    window.drarmor.setValue(drarmor, 0);
    window.maxspeed.setValue(maxspeed, 0);
  end
end

In this case you don't want to return a value of 'true' because that will stop the FG engine from performing the default action (which resets the link): by not having a return statement, or by returning a value of 'nil', the FG engine carries on doing what it should.

You might find the reference material useful (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/refdoc/) as it includes documentation for all these events. The onClickRelease event is listed under the windowcontrol entry.

Hope that helps,

Foen

[Paul Pratt]

I returned to true so I could capture the double click and use it to set the new data.

I couldn't figure out how to grab the middle button. I see where I went wrong.

I do want to use onClickRelease with the middle mouse button, and have a one click feature to clear everything.

This looks like exactly what I am after.

Thanks.

PS: I do use the docs, hard for me to follow without examples of usage most of the time. So, when I am stuck beyond what I can do, it sure is nice to have a helpful community!

[Foen]

Returning 'true' to enable onClickRelease and onDoubleClick *is* needed in onClickDown, but *isn't* needed in onClickRelease. I think.

Happy to help out: it wasn't so long ago that I was new here, and I found folks like Joshuha and moon_wizard really helpful to me.