Getting Started with Scripting

Excercise 4 - Hooking up a script to the user interface

Now you made the star's script "run all the time". Now go back to that same menu in its scriptor, and tell it to run on "mouseDown". Then mouse down on the star and watch the script run once.

Experiment with all the different choices - mouseDown, mouseStillDown, mouseUp, mouseEnter, mouseLeave. For "countinuous controls" such as scroll bars and sliders, "mouseStillDown" is a good choice. For traditional "buttons", "mouseUp" is a traditional choice, though some controls feel better when they react on mouseDown.

You can have one script do something on mouseDown, and another on mouseUp, etc. One easy thing to try is to have the button change color (to something darker, for example) upon mouseDown, and then change back to its original color upon mouseUp.