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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XWarpPointer revisited.....
Message-ID: <995@attc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:07:20 GMT
References: <9945@ncar.ucar.edu> <100920274@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <100920274@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
>
>>    Under the current thinking, the user must:
>>    - move the pointer to the "acknowledge" button
>
>You assume that the box is not and cannot be posted under the cursor.
>
     Indeed I do.
     In graphics applications (CAD/CAM), the pointer is where user
     works, and where the graphical information (drawing) NEEDED
     to choose from the popup is.
     Often (not always) it is NOT desirable to popup at the current
     pointer location as this would HIDE (obscure) the information
     the user needs to see to make his (menu) choice.



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