Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!crunchie!crouch From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XWarpPointer Message-ID: <1990Jul18.085928.19617@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 18 Jul 90 08:59:28 GMT References: Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: CRouch@axion.bt.co.uk Organization: British Telecom Research Labs Lines: 24 In article , lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: |> |> Is it considered a bad thing to use such a function as an action? |> Basically, I'm using it to move the user from field to field in a |> form-like application. One could argue that it's a bit disconcerting |> to the user for the pointer to be jumping all over the place, or that |> it would actually guide the user along. Which do you believe, and |> why? |> I asked a related question a little while back. Many people think that warping the pointer is antisocial. The solution I plumped for was to move the keyboard focus from item to item, along with some visual feedback that it has moved (I'm currently displaying a caret in the widget which is focussed on). This has the effect of guiding the user from item to item without taking the mouse pointer out of their control. Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Rouch crouch@axion.bt.co.uk RT3131, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, England. +44 473 646093 We came, we saw, we lost on penalties.