Disabling drag events?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:51:35 -0500 "Kit Peters" <popefelix at gmail.com> babbled:

> I'll answer both suggestions here.
> 
> Rasterman suggests: "if it is just your APPLICATION that needs to not have
> motion events... then why don't u simply disable it listening to mouse
> motion events?"
> 
> Our application's UI runs on top of Firefox - it's a series of HTML pages
> served from a local web server.  Many of our "buttons" are text in HTML
> tables, and so any "drag event" will highlight the text, rather than
> "pressing" the button.  Also, for some reason, if a user rolls their finger
> from side to side while pressing a button, it throws the calibration of the
> touchscreen all out of whack.

oh. ouch. lots of layers which lose u control. bugger. though i'd be tempted to make a modified firefox long before i modify x.

> I think I've also answered Owen Taylor's question regarding the dangers of
> "click-n-drag" here.


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