Finding the frame under the cursor

[Malsomnus]

Alright, so I'm working on an add-on which has many text boxes, and to keep things simple I'm giving it a drag&drop feature for them. I wanted it to look nice and clear, so I made it so that while dragging, there's a half transparent copy of what you're dragging under the cursor.
The problem: having this frame under the cursor means I don't get OnEnter events while dragging, so I can't know where I'm dropping it.
Is there a way to detect which frame is under the cursor at a given moment out of a set of frames? Is there a way to make the OnEnter events work despite this effect?

[Fizzlemizz]

Type /fstack, same again to get rid of the frame stack window.

[Xrystal]

If I read your request right, the info at http://www.wowpedia.org/API_Region_IsMouseOver should point you in the right direction.


Of course it means you have to cycle through the frames you want to check for and can't just check what is under the mouse.

[Malsomnus]

Originally Posted by Xrystal If I read your request right, the info at http://www.wowpedia.org/API_Region_IsMouseOver should point you in the right direction. Of course it means you have to cycle through the frames you want to check for and can't just check what is under the mouse.

Since that appears to be a method I can call for each of the relevant frames, and the event is user-driven so not likely to happen a hundred times per second, that's probably what I'll use

[SDPhantom]

GetMouseFocus() should return the frame that is currently receiving mouse events.

[Malsomnus]

GetMouseFocus() would fail for the same reason that I can't get OnEnter events. But IsMouseOver() has been working wonderfully well for me, especially with the offset parameters!

[SDPhantom]

It should only fail if the frame is not set to receive mouse events (EnableMouse="false"). Note most frames aren't set to receive them by default. I would think the reason an OnEnter event doesn't fire for a frame with mouse events enabled and while dragging is the mouse is still over the frame, not meeting the requirements for it to fire again.

[semlar]

It fails because the frame he's dragging is between the mouse and the frame he's trying to interact with.

[SDPhantom]

If that's the case, what happens if you turn off mouse handling for a frame you're currently dragging? Although it may not sound like a good idea, it might be something to look into as a possibility if the OnDragStop event still fires.

[Malsomnus]

Mouse handling is already off for the frame I'm dragging, the events all belong to other frames. It still gets in the way. But IsMouseOver() really solved it nicely.