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the mouseDown (system property)

Syntax

the mouseDown

Description

System property; indicates whether the mouse button is currently being pressed (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

The Director player for Java doesn't update the mouseDown property when Lingo is in a repeat loop. If you try to test mouseDown inside a repeat loop in an applet, the applet hangs.

Example

This handler causes the movie to beep until the user clicks the mouse:

on enterFrame
	repeat while the mouseDown = FALSE
		beep
	end repeat
end

Example

This statement instructs Lingo to exit the repeat loop or handler it is in when the user clicks the mouse:

if the mouseDown then exit

See also

mouseH, the mouseUp (system property), mouseV, on mouseDown (event handler), on mouseUp (event handler)