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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Changing windows
Keywords: input focus window mouse
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Date: 26 Nov 90 19:42:36 GMT
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In article <1409@nttcvg.ntt.jp>, mase@nttcvg.NTT.JP (Kenji Mase) writes:
|> 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,).
|> 
You can do it but only by writing some PostScript code.  It's a bit
complicated.  I can give you more details if you like but in view of the
impending demise of NeWS on the IRIS it's probably not worth your time. You
would have to do it again under X under X.

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