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From: thant@horus.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman)
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Subject: Re: gclear
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:48:42 GMT
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In article <907@laic.UUCP>, trimble@laic.UUCP (Gary Trimble) writes:
> Is there a programmatic way to do a gclear? I have an application that
> requires it before the mouse will respond to the motions over the entire
> screen. Please email or post.

One of the things 'gclear' does is reset the mouse valuators.  If
your mouse is stuck, all your program may need to do is:


setvaluator(MOUSEX, getvaluator(MOUSEX), 0, getgdesc(GD_XPMAX)-1);
setvaluator(MOUSEY, getvaluator(MOUSEY), 0, getgdesc(GD_YPMAX)-1);


If it is something else, you can do a 

system("gclear");

Good luck,

thant