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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: There *ARE* uses for forcing the mouse to a location (non-g
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.152329.14232@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 15:23:29 GMT
References: <AaRJEn_00WB20ajgQz@andrew.cmu.edu> <30795@cup.portal.com>
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In article <30795@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
|> Moving the mouse under program control would be useful in a help
|> system.  The program could have a button named "Show Me", which
|> the user could press while viewing help on a topic.  The program
|> would take over the mouse and show the user how the operation
|> is performed.

The same effect can be achieved by changing the cursor to something less
conspicuous (don't ask me how on the Mac -- it's easy in X) and then
drawing a cursor and moving it.

Of course, this could confuse the user just the same.  It just avoids
the problems that people have mentioned with actually moving the mouse
pointer.

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