I am interested in creating a new feature for G4P but I need to detect when the mouse enters and exits the client area (drawing area) of the sketch. Since Processing does not generate these events I am trying to do this by adding my own mouse listeners using the code below. The problem is that I ge…

PApplet has mouseEntered() and mouseExited() which you can override in the same way as mousePressed(). If you are making a library, you can register method for mouseEvent(MouseEvent e) and you should get events with actions MouseEvent.ENTER and MouseEvent.EXIT. (That is processing.event.MouseEvent …

[image] How to tell if the mouse is over the window? Processing Alright, I added this functionality myself with: public boolean mousePresent = true; public void mouseExited() { mousePresent = false; } public void mouseEntered() { mousePrese…

[image] Jakub: If you are making a library, you can register method for mouseEvent(MouseEvent e) and you should get events with actions MouseEvent.ENTER and MouseEvent.EXIT . Do I feel like the village idiot :roll_eyes: I don’t know how I missed that, G4P already registers for mouse events bu…

Haha, don’t worry. These are not in the reference and I also didn’t know about them until recently, when I was working on some mouse input stuff :slightly_smiling_face:

It might actually be nice to mention / allude to in the reference! Reacting to mouse entering / exiting isn’t really an exotic thing to want to do.

[image] jeremydouglass: It might actually be nice to mention / allude to in the reference! I have raised this as an issue on Github

i not think it is just a documentation problem, do you notice the IDE color on ?internal? functions and this ?valid but external? JAVA functions ( under valid i mean a working JAVA function what not need a import … ) [snap-014]

Detecting when the mouse enters / exits sketch window

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kll November 21, 2018, 11:17pm 3

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