Unable to set the VAS (Paul Groot VAS with changes) needle direction when the scale is vertical

[avraham niv]

Paul it WORKED you are totally right.
Thanks for the wise advice and for the genius script!!!
Avraham

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:40:48 PM UTC+3, Paul Groot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, I'm not able to double check this right now, but SetCursosPos 
> accepts X,Y coordinates (in that order) by definition. Using Slider.Bottom 
> for X and Slider.Left for Y, etc. doesn't make sense...
>
> Shouldn't it be something like this?:
>
>             if strSliderDirection1 = "bottom" then
>                 Mouse.SetCursorPos VAS_SliderDummy.Left, 
> VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom
>             end if
>
>
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 17:31, avraham niv <niv... at gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> First I would really like to thank Paul for the script for the VAS it's 
>> great!
>> In my experiment I need to use the VAS both horizontally and vertically, 
>> and i need the needle starting position to be at the left and right edges 
>> (and not like Paul's VAS in the center).
>> For the horizontal VAS I managed to do it by adding another argument to 
>> VAS_DragScale so it looks like this:
>>
>> Function VAS_DragScale(c As Context, strAttributeName as string, Optional 
>> duration as Variant, *Optional strSliderDirection as Variant*) as Integer
>>
>> and than inside the function i added the following:
>>
>> 'set mouse cursor at left right or center position
>>     If IsMissing(strSliderDirection) then
>>         Mouse.SetCursorPos 
>> 0.5*(VAS_SliderDummy.Left+VAS_SliderDummy.Right), VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom
>>     else
>>         if strSliderDirection = "left" then
>>             Mouse.SetCursorPos VAS_SliderDummy.Left, 
>> VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom
>>         else
>>             if strSliderDirection = "right" then
>>                 Mouse.SetCursorPos VAS_SliderDummy.Right, 
>> VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom
>>             end if
>>         end if
>>     End If
>>
>> and in the trials I use an inline to tell the needle where to start.
>> That went fine but when I try to implement it in the vertical VAS it 
>> always starts from the bottom of the slider dummy text object,
>> I guess it is got to do with the fact that to create the vertical vas I 
>> just changed the slide text object (VAS_SliderDummy) dimensions, in the 
>> script basically changes every X to Y and vice versa, and every 
>> Object.Right to Object.Bottom and every Object.Left to Object.Top .
>> So for example my changes to the script above looks like this:
>>
>> 'set mouse cursor at up down or center position
>>     If IsMissing(strSliderDirection1) then
>>         Mouse.SetCursorPos 
>> 0.5*(VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom+VAS_SliderDummy.Top), VAS_SliderDummy.Left
>>     else
>>         if strSliderDirection1 = "top" then
>>             Mouse.SetCursorPos VAS_SliderDummy.Top, VAS_SliderDummy.Left
>>         else
>>             if strSliderDirection1 = "bottom" then
>>                 Mouse.SetCursorPos VAS_SliderDummy.Bottom, 
>> VAS_SliderDummy.Left
>>             end if
>>         end if
>>     End If
>>
>> As I mentioned it doesn't work.
>> If anyone got a clue I will be greatfull!
>> I attached the whole experiment if someone needs it and I would like to 
>> thank Paul again for the original script.
>>
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