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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: resetting the mouse position
Message-ID: <8906141104.AA17773@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 89 11:04:21 GMT
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Bill Rosenkranz writes:
>there is an illegal way of doing this, but (to keep allan happy :~)

(and me...)

>the solution MUST be legal. the program "mousdoub" does it (i think)
>illegally (at least it uses the pointer-to-bios-function-tables-returned-
>in-a0-on-illegal-biosfunction trick...

There is a very easy way to set the mouse position (check your
favorite AES manual...):

    int mrec[4];

    mrec[0] = 0; mrec[1] = 2;       /* Mouse-event */
    mrec[2] = 100; mrec[3] = 10;    /* x and y */
    appl_tplay(mrec,1,1000);