Hi, the concepts of [mousestate] and [mousepad] are different, they
complement each other. [mousepad] is a widget, like slider & Co. If
they are stacked, only one at a time can have mouse focus.
[mousestate] doesn't steal mouse focus of widgets above it. Both
concepts have their own use cases.

Katja


On 3/21/19, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:
> Em qui, 21 de mar de 2019 às 06:18, Lucas Cordiviola
> <lucarda27@hotmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> [cyclone/mousestate] is very raw compared to [mousepad]. You can have one
>> or more [cyclone/mousestate] and they all will just output the same xy
>> coords for the screen (not the patch).
>>
> actually there are 3 modes of operation in [mousestate], but it's not like
> I'm defendind the idea we should have the exact same object, design and
> functionalities
>
>
>> Probably is very easy for [mousepad] to incorporate an option like
>> "global
>> sender" to give the same functionality as [cyclone/mousestate].
>>
>
> yup, I think so. I'd be happy with just being able to get mouse clicks
> anywhere in my patch window along with coordinates (which could be for the
> whole screen or relative to the patch window, two of the options from
> [mousestate].
>
> Well, I don't know, what do you all think?
>
> cheers
>