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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help! Anyone know how to force the mouse to a location?
Message-ID: <17080@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 90 15:57:18 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.091419.14219@portia.Stanford.EDU> <16995@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1990Jun7.133446.15665@ipsa.reuter.com>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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In article <1990Jun7.133446.15665@ipsa.reuter.com> gchow@itcyyz.UUCP (george chow) writes:
>In article <16995@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>>Tell me what, exactly, this `good purpose' is that you've thought up,
>>and I and millions of other Netters will help you come up with a more
>>proper way of doing it.

>Well, I've been using SunView on a 386i for the last month or so and have gotten
>very used to the way that it relocates your pointer on top of the most safe
>response in any dialog box. After you respond, you are put right back where you
>were before the dialog box came up. It was very disconcerting in the beginning
>but after a few days, it becomes second nature to not `run' to any dialog box
>that pops up. (BTW, I use an SE mostly so that moving to any dialog box is not
>much of a problem but on the Sun/Apollo/Mac with big screens, it is 
>semi-annoying to have to literally go so far to respond to any dialog box.

>>     << Brian >>
 [ my .sig deleted ]

First off, please don't quote someone's .sig without putting yours
below it, in the interests of proper attribution.

Secondly -- I can't get used to the pointer jumping all over the place
on a Sun.  I instinctively begin to move my pointer towards a dialog
when it appears, but of course it's already there, so it usually zips
off to some uncharted corner of the screen and (since the screen is
large and monochrome) it takes me a few seconds to find it again.  Not
a terrible distraction, but about as annoying as dropping your pencil.

Perhaps the answer isn't to have the mouse jump to a dialog, but
instead to speed up the mouse tracking rate so you have faster access
to all parts of the screen at all times.

     << Brian >>
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