Need help with Active System Box

Okay, after looking through the File Archive, i found some examples that look to the Background System Box for RTS selection boxes. I, too, found this efficient, although i need Active System Box to make it go in front of Actives. And there's the bug. It behaves weird. If you look at that, You can see that the box pastes itself when moved Up-Left. Down-Right works, though. The code sets original X and Y positions and resizes to MouseX and MouseY. It should work fine, it does with Background System Box.

If you can help, then please do.
//Joel_Yeah

The only time I have seen a system box behave like that is when you give it a negative dimension

Yes, that is what is done when dragging it top-left. One way to go around this is to split the dragging of the box into more events, separating between positive and negative values.

I'm sure I have got a system box work in negative dimensions before though - ...wait, what colour is the border of the box?

Green. It's in the image.

I think it doesn't blur like that if you use a system colour

I'm not quite sure what you're on about...

If you use system colours e.g. "3D Light'' , ''Shadow'' e.t.c instead of ''custom'' then when you enter a negative dimension it draws the box properly

Oh. Thanks <img src="/center/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

EDIT: Just one problem... It still doesn't work...

mmm... works on mine - sometimes - mabye a certain object mucks it up (like the Tray Object stops windows objects from working)

I still need help with this. Seriously.

I made an example over here.

Okay, it works now. Thanks :grin:

Moderators, please close this topic.

Why? If anyone else has anything to add about ASBs used in this way I'd be interested to hear it.

Okay, Moderators, don't close this topic :grin:

Could someone tell me where to download the Active System Box.