How to stop mousegrabber in another function

FluffyDango 0
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I am creating a tasklist with drag and drop.

In the widget_template create_callback function I am using this code:

self:connect_signal("button::press",
function(_, lx, ly, button, mods)
   capi.mousegrabber.run(
   function()
     return true
     end, "hand") 
end)
self:connect_signal("button::release",
function(_, lx, ly, button, mods)
    capi.mousegrabber.stop()
end)

Mousegrabber does not stop when mouse is released and I don't understand why.

awesome-wm
1 Answers

Thanks to @Emmanuel Lepage Vallee the solution I found looks like this:

self:connect_signal("button::press",
function(_, lx, ly, button, mods)
   capi.mousegrabber.run(
   function(mouse)
     return mouse.buttons[1]
   end, "hand") 
end)

Mousegrabber disables any mouse events happening that's why you can't rely on button::release signal to activate another function. The only way to interact with the mouse is through the mousegrabber function mouse parameter

mouse.buttons[NUMBER] is an undocumented property which you can use. It returns true if it is pressed.

FluffyDango0
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