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Determining If Left- or Right- Click

In FileMaker Pro, it is easy to override a field's button setup so that a script is run when the field is clicked on. Is there a way from within such a script to determine if the user left-clicked or right-clicked?

Thanks,
Ben

Solution

  • Oddly, I am pretty sure you can't get the mouse button clicked. If you could, it would probably be a Get() function.

    I tested:

    Get(ActiveModifierKeys)

    and

    Get(TriggerModifierKeys)

    but neither return a value for mouse clicks, only keyboard clicks.

    If you are a C++ programmer, you could write a plugin that creates a new FileMaker function that returns the mouse button clicked, but you would need to install the plugin on every machine that will use the function.