SSR_Nicholas wrote:
hey, ravens, thanks a lot..you example is always helpful..I'm not very sure about how you achieve the mouse down in the example. Basically I will remove the while loop&event loop. The express VI 'promp user for input' and comparison of coordinates will be sufficient for me. So my query is how to get the coordinate of cursor upon a mouse click down. In other words, the mouse down will trigger sth to get the cursor postion and then I'll feed this position coordinate to the coordinate comparison you provided in the last example/
I'm looking forward to your reply!!
Cheers,
SSR
I don't know how you expect it to work without the while loop and event structure. The event structure is what detects that the mouse down has occurred. And you need the while loop around it so that you can detect more than just the very first mouse down event.
To get the cursor position of the tab, I placed and indicator on the Coords node inside the event structure. That indicator is still present, but would be removed in the normal program. Then I just clicked around on the tab at the extremes where I figured the limits of the mouse click should be detected. I wrote down the coordinates and just placed them as constants when I wrote the remainder of the code. Of course if the tab control moves within the windows, or the names on the tabs change where they are longer or shorted and change the relative position of that tab, then the coordinates will be different and have to be determined again.
