Saturday, May 6, 2023

✏ _MOUSEBUTTON and GETMOUSE

For both functions, "1" would be returned to indicate that a mouse button is pressed.

Now, both functions return "-1" (i.e. the system constant TRUE) to indicate that a mouse button is pressed.

Unchanged: a "0" (i.e. the system constant FALSE) is returned to indicate that a mouse button is NOT pressed.

In any previously created BAM programs, you will need to change things like "IF _MOUSEBUTTON = 1" to one of:

  • "IF _MOUSEBUTTON = TRUE"
  • "IF _MOUSEBUTTON = -1"
  • "IF _MOUSEBUTTON"

📚 How I go about testing a little fix to a DRAW statement bug

EDIT: After this video, I did some more "proof in the pudding" testing of my supposed fix, and discovered that although the fix wo...