closer to mouse drag not being annoyingly wrong

eventMouse.go

@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ func mouseUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 		}
 	*/
 
+	log.Info("mouseUp() setting me.globalMouseDown = false")
+	me.globalMouseDown = false
+
 	dropdownUnclicked(w, h)
 
+	/*
 		if msgMouseDown {
 			log.Info("setting mousedown to false")
 			msgMouseDown = false
@@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ func mouseUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 			globalMouseDown = false
 			g.DeleteView("globalDown")
 		}
+	*/
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -40,6 +45,7 @@ func mouseUp(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 // the right response for the toolkit user's app
 func mouseDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 	mx, my := g.MousePosition()
+	me.globalMouseDown = true
 
 	var found bool = false
 	for _, tk := range findByXY(mx, my) {
@@ -85,7 +91,6 @@ func mouseDown(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 			return msgDown(g, v)
 		}
 	}
-	globalMouseDown = true
 
 	maxX, _ := g.Size()
 

eventMouseMove.go

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func mouseMove(g *gocui.Gui) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if msgMouseDown {
+	if me.globalMouseDown {
 		// log.Info("msgMouseDown == true")
 		// plugin will segfault if you don't keep this inside a check for msgMouseDown
 		// don't move this code out of here
@@ -75,13 +75,16 @@ func (tk *guiWidget) moveNew(g *gocui.Gui) {
 	if tk.node.WidgetType == widget.Label {
 		s := fmt.Sprintf("move(%dx%d) %s ###", w, h, tk.cuiName)
 		tk.dumpWidget(s)
+		outputW, outputH := tk.Size()
 		g.SetView(tk.cuiName, w-xOffset, h-yOffset, w-xOffset+outputW, h-yOffset+outputH+me.FramePadH, 0)
 		me.startOutputW = w - xOffset
 		me.startOutputH = h - yOffset
-		g.SetViewOnBottom(tk.cuiName)
+		// g.SetViewOnBottom(tk.cuiName)
 		return
 	}
 	tk.dumpWidget("moveNew() on " + tk.cuiName)
+	outputW := 140
+	outputH := 40
 	g.SetView("msg", w-xOffset, h-yOffset, w-xOffset+outputW, h-yOffset+outputH+me.FramePadH, 0)
 	me.startOutputW = w - xOffset
 	me.startOutputH = h - yOffset

place.go

@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ func (w *guiWidget) placeGrid(startW int, startH int) (int, int) {
 func (w *guiWidget) realGocuiSize() *rectType {
 	var f func(tk *guiWidget, r *rectType)
 	newR := new(rectType)
+
+	outputW, outputH := w.Size()
 	// initialize the values to opposite
 	newR.w0 = outputW
 	newR.h0 = outputH

stdoutShow.go

@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/widget"
 )
 
-var outputW int = 180
-var outputH int = 40
-
 func showMsg(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 	var l string
 	var err error
@@ -39,6 +36,9 @@ func showMsg(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 func makeOutputWidget(g *gocui.Gui, stringFromMouseClick string) *gocui.View {
 	maxX, maxY := g.Size()
 
+	var outputW int = 180
+	var outputH int = 40
+
 	if me.treeRoot == nil {
 		// keep skipping this until the binary tree is initialized
 		return nil

structs.go

@@ -70,12 +70,13 @@ type config struct {
 	ecount          int        // counts how many mouse and keyboard events have occurred
 	supermouse      bool       // prints out every widget found while you move the mouse around
 	depth           int        // used for listWidgets() debugging
+	globalMouseDown bool       // yep, mouse is pressed
 }
 
 // deprecate these
 var (
 	initialMouseX, initialMouseY, xOffset, yOffset int
-	globalMouseDown, msgMouseDown                  bool
+	msgMouseDown                                   bool
 )
 
 // this is the gocui way
@@ -131,6 +132,9 @@ func (w *guiWidget) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	me.writeMutex.Lock()
 	defer me.writeMutex.Unlock()
 
+	// _, outputH := w.Size()
+	outputH := 33 // special output length for "msg" window until I figure things out
+
 	tk := me.logStdout
 	if tk.v == nil {
 		// optionally write the output to /tmp