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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pointer Position via AmigaDOS i/o
Message-ID: <5122@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 20:46:35 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.020351.18563@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: kodiak@batgirl.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article ... (Thomas M. Breeden) writes:
)Writing the SRE, Set Raw Events, Amiga specific CSI sequence for request
)2, RAW mouse input, and 4, Pointer position ...
)
)<x>,<y> values are almost always "0;0;". Clicking and moving as fast as
)possible will sometimes result in a small positive or negative <x> or <y>
)value, as if it were relative to the position 0.1 sec before.

The RAWMOUSE events that you're getting here are from the gameport device,
the movement-only events are filtered by intuition, but the button events may
still contain some recent relative [see the MSB of the ie_Qualifier] mouse
movement.

)Is there something more I need to do to get the <x>,<y> positions ...

You need to look in the window->MouseX and window->MouseY.

- Kodiak
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