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From: writer@neptune.UUCP (Writer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Setting the Mouse Location
Message-ID: <701@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 18:51:20 GMT
References: <67@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: writer@neptune.UUCP (Nigel Robinson)
Organization: Cognos or Apple, depending
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R.Crispin writes:
>I would like to have a script position the mouse/cursor to a specific
>part of the screen ... 

Although I agree with others that you shouldn't hold a user's hand, there
is a valid application for making the pointer look like it is moving, 
as in a demonstration of 'how to use this stack'.


I couldn't figure out a way to move the pointer, but I faked it...

- make a button icon (or steal one...) that looks like the pointer (or hand 
or whatever)

- attach it to a transparent button that is only just large enough to enclose 
the icon

- move the button around the screen, using 'set the loc of button n ...' 
  (I filled an invisible field with x,y coordinates and read them sequentially)

- OH YEAH!  Don't forget to hide the real mouse pointer by changing its icon 
  to a single lit pixel.  (Maybe you can have it completely blank, but I forget 
  the details)

Hope this helps...  Nigel (waterloo co-op at large)