mouseReleaseOnEntity does not fire when mouse is released after moving off the entity

[zedwick]

The mouseReleaseOnEntity signal is not emitted when the mouse is not over the entity which had been clicked. The documentation states it should be emitted:

Triggered when a mouse button is released after clicking on an entity or the controller trigger is partly or fully released after pressing on an entity, even if the mouse pointer or controller laser has moved off the entity.

Seems it is also triggered after the mouse is pressed away from the entity, and then released on the entity.

mousePressAndRelease.js

I have attached a simple client entity script which can be added as a script to any entity to test this behaviour.

Click (and hold) the entity to color it green, release on the entity to color it red. It should be colored red when releasing off the entity, as described in the documentation, but it is not.

[ada-tv]

I think this is an error in the documentation. Having the release event happen on the entity that's being hovered (rather than the entity that was first pressed) lets you implement things like drag-n-drop, and that's how the release event works in most UI toolkits, including the onmouseup event on the Web.

For having a mouse-release that remembers the first pressed entity, I'd store the entity ID that was pressed and then re-use that when the mouseReleaseOnEntity is called, ignoring the ID that it receives.

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HTML example of how onmousedown and onmouseup behave, logs to the console

[zedwick]

Makes sense to me.

I thought I would report it as a bug as the documentation specifically states it should work differently, but I think I agree it makes sense to continue as-is if nothing had been relying on that behaviour.