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Re: Question about EventHandler - missing documentation

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• Subject: [mg80034] Re: [mg79989] Question about EventHandler - missing documentation
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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This sort of thing is, and more or less always has been, a shortcoming 
with the Mathematica documentation -- the lack of complete information 
about admissible values.

It think the Version 6 reference pages for named objects do a better job 
at this than was done in earlier version, namely, in the initial 
specification of syntax and the More Information section that follows 
it.  But still, as for earlier versions, in many cases the totality of 
admissible values is only suggested, through the examples. At least we 
often have more examples than before, with their neat division into 
Basic Examples, Scope, Options, etc.

I can see at least three reasons for why complete specifications for 
admissible values are not available:  (1) it would be a herculean 
undertaking; (2) the docs would become unmanageably huge; (3) for the 
newest functionalities, there has not been sufficient time to do it.

I can imagine how unhappy many of us would have been had the release of 
Mathematica 6 been delayed for many more months while such "complete" 
documentation was completed.

Mariusz Jankowski wrote:
> Hello, I guess this is another one of those "Missing in the 
> documentation" posts. I am working with EventHandler and cannot find 
> complete documentation on the type of "events" supported. For example, 
> "MouseClicked" is not listed although it shows up in many examples! For 
> the partial listing see EventHandler in Doc. Center.
> 
> Specifically, I wanted to define an Alt-Click event but cannot figure 
> out how to refer to a mouse click while holding down the "Alt" key.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help, Mariusz
> 
> 

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  • Question about EventHandler - missing documentation
    • From: Mariusz Jankowski <mjankowski@usm.maine.edu>