Re: Mouse Clicks with a running sprite surface?

[Noah Desch <noahdesch at erols dot com>]

On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 11:22  AM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

> At 10:00 AM -0500 5/29/01, Chris Dillman wrote:
>
> > can you get mouse clicks with a running sprite surface?
> Yes, just use the Window's MouseDown event.
>
> > or call a function like Button() // C++
> Yes, System.MouseDown.
>
> > and then get the mouse X/Y...
> Window.MouseX and Window.MouseY.
>
> > I do not want to run a sprite withe a thread/timer
> > which shares CPU time better but runs like 5+ FPS or more slower.
> I highly recommend running it from a timer nonetheless.
I'm having good luck with a threaded spritesurface. It's pretty fast, and 
the ProcessViewer under OSX shows that it's grabbing only 54% of the CPU, 
and this includes the double-draw caused by scrolling the spritesurface, 
which is my major bottleneck right now.
-Noah Desch
Wireframe Software
http://wireframe.virtualave.net