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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help! Anyone know how to force the mouse to a location?
Message-ID: <17081@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 90 16:01:15 GMT
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Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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In article <30614@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>In anticipation of virtual memory, I offer the following description
>of how to set the mouse to any point on the screen.
>
>	...
>
>Now, to move the mouse from any location to any other location, use the
>journalling mechanism to play back the appropriate movement. :-)

Yeah, you would need about four gig of VM to do this for a Mac II
screen...  ;-)

>Seriously, I wonder if there is some way to get the journalling stuff
>to do this for you.  This may be a safer way then directly mucking with
>low memory globals.	

Didn't Apple say something a while back in some Tech Note that the
journalling capability of the Event Manager really shouldn't be used,
and that even the Inside Tour no longer makes use of it?

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