Opening window on mouse.

[w0llay]

Hello!

I am attempting to write a script that opens a dialog window. How would I be able to have the window open at the current mouse position?

[jazz-y · Accepted solution]

var cursor = (getXY());
var w = new Window("dialog", 'Test');
w.preferredSize = [200, 200];
w.location = [cursor[0], cursor[1]]
w.show();

function getXY() {
    var w = new Window("dialog {alignChildren: ['fill','fill'], margins: 0, opacity : 0.01}"),
        g = w.add("button"),
        X, Y;
    w.preferredSize = [$.screens[0].right, $.screens[0].bottom]
    g.addEventListener('mouseover', handler)
    function handler(evt) { w.close(); X = evt.screenX, Y = evt.screenY }
    w.show();
    return [X, Y]
}

[w0llay]

Thank you! If I understand correctly, this is a function that creates a fullscreen button with a mouseover event listener that closes and returns the X Y values?

[jazz-y]

Yes that's right.

Unfortunately, ScritpUI does not allow us to get the mouse coordinates directly, so we have to resort to such tricks.

[w0llay]

Makes sense. I added

w.opacity = 0;

to the function to make it a little less jarring as well.

[jazz-y]

It's strange that this works.

For me, when w.opacity = 0, the eventListener stops firing (that is, the window elements do not catch the event). That is, i need to set any value of transparency, except zero.