# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu :
> Couldn't he set up a handler instead (with fl_set_object_posthandler)?
> That way, he could interrupt the mouse actions and just ignore them,
> while perhaps adding other functions (don't know what, of course :) ).
> I thought that deactivating the object would make it so that the state
> doesn't change at all. Oh, yeah, he could reactivate it, change the
> bar, then deactivate it again as well, which would work if it's all
> that he's doing. . . .
Deactivating the object just means it doesn't respond to *input*. I
use this method for precisely what he wants to do and it works fine.
Adding the object prehandler (not posthandler -- it wouldn't do what
you suggest) is certainly an option but one which strikes me as
excessively complicated.
spl
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