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From: mase@nttcvg.NTT.JP (Kenji Mase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Changing windows
Keywords: input focus window mouse
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Date: 22 Nov 90 10:08:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: dmlaur@phoenix.Princeton.EDU's message of 16 Nov 90 19:31:51 GMT

In article <4125@idunno.Princeton.EDU> dmlaur@phoenix.Princeton.EDU writes:
   ::In article <1990Nov16.031651.21667@agate.berkeley.edu> sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) writes:
   ::> Suppose, however, I wanted to allow the user to select the new
   ::> graphics window with the mouse.  Is there a way to find out which
   ::> window the mouse is over?
   ::
   ::So ... the canonical input tracking idiom looks like this:
   ::......


I am new to be here and having similar problem in finding mouse
position and controlling windows.

I want to control(open from icon or close) windows which may be
created by ***other processes*** such as wsh or so. For example, a clock,
a calendar and a wsh window are opened by running user.ps when I login.
Then, I want to close those windows to icons or vise versa by moving
mouse cursor position in a different process calling setvaluator(MOUSEs,).

This is possible on SUN workstations SunView by looing for its
parent window and whose children by calling win_getlink(),
win_screenget(), and so on.

I assume the 4Sight system must be housekeeping those information to
know which window or icon, whatever process created them,  is being
located by mouse, too. I can't find any documantation about this so
far. 

Could anybody help me? Thank you.

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-kenji
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Kenji Mase (mase%nttcvg.ntt.jp@relay.cs.net)
      Vision and Graphics group
      Visual Perception Lab. NTT Human Interface Labs.
      Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. , Japan