Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!b11!dan
From: dan@b11.ingr.com (Dan Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help! Anyone know how to force the mouse to a location?
Message-ID: <8139@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 9 Jun 90 18:56:38 GMT
References: <3668@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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in article <3668@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account) says:
> 
> Well, I guess that juist means that you and all the other millions
> of Netters don't ever want to use a graphics tablet or a digitizer,
> huh?????
> Or can you come up with a way to do that without setting the cursor
> postion??? 
> That's just one example, because I had to do write a driver for one..
> I'm sure there's plenty more if I thought about it..

I think you've got it backwards.  The tablet or mouse driver obviously
should be able to move the cursor.  IMHO, it should be the only software
that moves the cursor.

No one has mentioned this fact:
It is impossible for an application to set the cursor position
when an absolute device such as a tablet is being used because the
tablet will immediately move it back.  (Unless, of course, the
tablet grabs the user's hand and jerks it toward the new location. :-)

Dan Webb
Intergraph
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