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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: My Tablet Program Broke
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Date: 10 Jun 91 19:04:21 GMT
References: <1991May30.072335.9941@netcom.COM> <1991May31.022526.24625@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au> <1043@celia.UUCP> <22252@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <22252@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
 
>A second issue is that the include files have defined the mouse-button
>codes (IECODE_LBUTTON, etc.) as being for the IECLASS_RAWMOUSE event,
>but many people sent them (incorrectly) for IECLASS_POINTERPOS.  Under
>1.3, that happened to work (because IECLASS_POINTERPOS was coverted
>very simply into IECLASS_RAWMOUSE).  Under 2.0, the handling of input

If this was incorrect, what is correct? To use IECLASS_RAWMOUSE whenever
I am sending mouse key events and IECLASS_POINTERPOS whenever I send x 
and y coordinates to the mousepointer? There is VERY LITTLE reference to
IECLASS_POINTERPOS in the RKM1.3 Manuals. I read that IECLASS_POINTERPOS
was converted anyway in RAWMOUSE with the correct relative values. What
happens in 2.0?  

>events is more sophisticated, and this side-effect was lost.  Again,
>because of the number of people who depended on this and the fact
>that the side-effect could be easily re-created without much burden
>to Intuition, a change was made so things work like they did in 1.3.

Is it a good thing that side effect was lost? My own feeling is that I would
rather do things correctly, than have some kind of repair made so what I did
wrong, in the first place, will still work. Obviously, I am not the only one
who made this mistake, although I might have been the only one who made it 
out of ignorance. Where can I find more information about this?

>Alternately, since you wrote the driver, you could fix it to
>tide you over in the meantime.

I am trying to make this fix. This does help a lot. Thanks.
 
neil
 
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