Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!stan!ninja!toml From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XWarpPointer revisited..... Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 91 21:49:51 GMT References: <9945@ncar.ucar.edu> <100920272@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> <977@attc.UUCP> Sender: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: marbru@attc.UUCP's message of 18 Jan 91 22:41:32 GMT Now. If the application would: - popup the box - warp the pointer into the "acknowledge" button - wait for reply - warp pointer to the *original* position In this scenario, the user would *only* have to click the button to acknowledge the message. He von't be lost, since the application would return the pointer where it was before... Naturally, this should ONLY be done if the pointer *was* in the application's window to start. Actually, OPEN LOOK applications and window managers can provide this exact behavior. This is accomplished through the private OL Client/WM protocol and it is actually the window manager that does the warpping. -- Tom LaStrange toml@Solbourne.COM