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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Alternate X Pointer devices
Keywords: mouse, pointers
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.164149.4274@alphalpha.com>
Date: 27 Nov 90 16:41:49 GMT
References: <1170@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>
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In article <1170@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> chubin@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Ed Chubin) writes:
>A client of ours would like to avoid using a mouse to access our X
>application.  I have not seen any examples of how this can be done.
>This application has not been written in-house, so we can't change it.

Whoops, I didn't notice this when I started to reply.  I was going to
suggest that this was one advantage of Motif

>I know that OS/2 and MS/Windows has provisions for users without
>these types of pointer devices, i.e. use of the keyboard and arrow
>keys.

due in fact to having inherited its style guide from these sources.
But that's not going to help you with a non-Motif application.

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