[lively-kernel] changing the default behavior of a morph

[Rick McGeer]

Quick question. For left-click on a morph, the default behavior is Grab.
How do I change it to Transform ("T" on the Halo menu)? After a half-hour
of mousing around in an Inspector I got lost, and realized that the
simplest thing to do is ask....I assume that it's simply setting the right
event handler for the MouseDown event...

Thanks
Rick

[Robert Krahn]

First, to disable the normal behavior the morph already provides an
interface.
You can just call

morph.disableGrabbing();

to not pick up the morph when dragging on it.

Then, step 2, is to define the behavior of what to do instead. You can
overwrite the normal drag logic. First make sure dragging is enabled:

morph.enableDragging();

There are three dragging-related event handlers:

onDragStart
onDrag
onDragEnd

You need to implement the first two:

morph.addScript(function onDrag(evt) {
var globalPosition = this.worldPoint(pt(0,0)),
nowHandAngle = evt.getPosition().subPt(globalPosition).theta(),
newRotation = this.startRotation + (nowHandAngle -
this.startHandAngle);
this.setRotation(newRotation);
});

morph.addScript(function onDragStart(evt) {
var globalPosition = this.worldPoint(pt(0,0));
this.startRotation = this.getRotation();
this.startHandAngle = evt.getPosition().subPt(globalPosition).theta();
});

To make sure to rotate the center of the morph you probably want to set the
origin itself. You can do this when the morphs shows its halos by clicking
and
dragging the little red dot around or programatically via

morph.setOrigin(morph.innerBounds().center())