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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Setting the Mouse Location
Message-ID: <11378@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 89 21:19:41 GMT
References: <67@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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In article <67@watserv1.waterloo.edu> psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>I would like to have a script position the mouse/cursor to a specific
>part of the screen but I can't figure out how to do it. Using "click
>at location" does not actually move the mouse/cursor. It just pretends
>to. Has anyone got an XCMD/XFCN to do this or another way that it can
>be done.

It's actually quite simple to do this.  Just put a message up on the screen
asking the user to move the mouse to a certain location.  No XCMD's, no
XFCN's - piece of cake.

In other words, NEVER NEVER try to move the pointer for a user.  This is
tantamount to having the computer grab the user's hand and forcibly move it
to a certain location.  Any situation where you would need to do this would
better be done via another, more user-friendly method.

The only time when Apple has ever allowed this approach of moving the pointer
regardless of what the mouse is doing was a few years back when the journalling
capabilities of the Event Manager were in vogue.  However, all memories of the
journaller seem to have been swept under the rug - not even the Apple Tour
disks use it any more.

     << Brian >>

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