Making an object permeable for events?

[kcorey]

Hi All,

I have an image that I'd like to use to highlight the user's last choice. It' an image that just adds a glow.

However if I put it on top, it eats all events so the object behind it isn't getting the event...so when the user clicks on the glowing past choice, nothing happens.

I was told to set a field to transparent for events I set the disabled to true. That was great for the field, but it doesn't seem to work for the image.

Anyone?

-Ken

[jmburnod]

Hi Ken,

You can store the name of the last chooses object in a local variable or write a function to get the name of the objects behind your image and send the message to this object

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[dunbarx]

Pass the messages you want to the underlying object:

On mouseup
send "mouseUp" to theUnderlyingObject"
end mouseUp

This was a thread somewhere just a few weeks ago. Making objects transparent does not permit messages to pass through them. There is no "messageTransParent" property.

Craig Newman

[kevin11]

I had a similar problem the other day. I resolved it by putting the objects in a group, and on a click (which is presumably returning your glow image), getting the owner of the glow image, which is the group. And then taking action based on what group had been clicked. Hope this helps.

[jmburnod]

Hi Ken,

If i understand what you want the stack in attachment maeby help you.

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[kcorey]

Thanks for all your answers!

Actually, someone pointed out that though an image doesn't have a "enabled" checkbox in the IDE, you can still set the property via code:

set the disabled of image "blah" to true

Which accomplishes all that I needed.

-Ken