EventHandler and keyboard events
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg132365] EventHandler and keyboard events
- From: Fred Simons <f.h.simons at tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 03:05:13 -0500 (EST)
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@wolfram.com
- Delivered-to: mathgroup-outx@smc.vnet.net
- Delivered-to: mathgroup-newsendx@smc.vnet.net
The following is a simple event handler:
DynamicModule[{n=0},
Style[EventHandler[ Graphics[{Inset[Dynamic[n],{0,0}]}, ImageSize->100,
Background->Yellow],
{ {"KeyDown","1"}:>(n=RandomInteger[{1,100}]), "KeyDown"->Null} ],
ShowSelection->False]]
It works only when we first click on the yellow square, thereby making
the current selection inside the event expression. When the current
selection is outside the yellow square, typing a 1 replaces the current
selection by 1, as usual.
My goal is to develop a DynamicModule such that pressing a key when the
mouse is over the DynamicModule initiates some action, without first
having to set the selection inside the DynamicModule. So in the above
example I want to achieve that moving the mouse over the yellow square
automatically sets the current selection within the yellow square. Can
that be done in Mathematica?
My feeling is that it must be possible. After all, the frontend is able
to detect that the mouse is over a displayed expression, e.g. in the
function Mouseover, and setting the current selection in a notebook is a
frontend action as well.
All thoughts are highly welcomed.
Fred Simons
Eindhoven University of Technology