O$ creating a drag rectangle on the thick client

[Paul Mulroney]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your email. Is this Dragster?  I had a look at that, but I'm not sure that would work in my situation.

Regards,
Paul.


> On 22 Jun 2020, at 2:13 pm, Mike Matthews - Omnis <omnis at lineal.co.uk> wrote:
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> I think Kelly (of course) has a drawing tool to do this.
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> Mike
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> Mike Matthews
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> omnis at lineal.co.uk<mailto:omnis at lineal.co.uk>
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> On 22 Jun 2020, at 03:56, Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au<mailto:pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au>> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I'm working on a feature where I want the user to be able to draw a rectangle onto an image on a window in the runtime.  At the moment it's pretty basic - I can track the mouse down and mouse up events, and then it draws the box.  However, it would be really cool if the user saw a rectangle as they moved the mouse after clicking mouse down - like drawing a box in a drawing program.  For double bonus points it'd be awesome if they could later on select the rectangle and resize it.
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> I don't think there's any functionality in Omnis that allows us to do that in the runtime.  Has anyone done something like this in the past, and are willing to share?
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> Regards,
> Paul.

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