Intercepting mouse button events

[Critters]

Hi there,

Is anybody able to point me in the right direction here? What I am trying to do is intercept mouse button events (particularly the left and right mouse up events) that take place in the UIParent frame. I want to take action based on these events and then pass the event through to the underlying event handler intrinsic to the UIParent frame. What I have done so far is create a frame that is registered for the OnMouseUp event and have had this invisible frame fill the UIParent frame, but then the problem is that no mouse button related events are getting through to the UIParent frame.

The AutoBuff addon has exaclty the fuctionality that I am looking for in this regard, but I am not familiar enough with wow scripting to quite get my head around how the author is hooking into the events in question.

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

-Sheppe

[Iriel]

You can't easily pick up mouse events via a frame and then 'pass them through' anywhere, it's generally easier in a case like yours, to hook the functions that the buttons are bound to, and do your work there.

[Critters]

Originally Posted by Iriel You can't easily pick up mouse events via a frame and then 'pass them through' anywhere, it's generally easier in a case like yours, to hook the functions that the buttons are bound to, and do your work there.

Yes, I realize that. Any idea what the function names are? I haven't had a lot of luck tracking them down.

I should have elaborated that I attempted to hook into the UIParent:OnMouseUp event, but it consistently returns a nil value. In addition, the reason for the frame is because I have not been able to find another way to have the OnMouseUp event raised for my addon.

Cheers,

-Sheppe

[Critters]

I believe I found the functions to hook:

-- Left button click functions.
CameraOrSelectOrMoveStart
CameraOrSelectOrMoveStop

-- Right button click functions.
TurnOrActionStart
TurnOrActionStop

-Sheppe

[Iriel]

Those look right (To verify look in your account key bindings then cross reference against FrameXML\Bindings.xml)