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From: GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: How to do a "MovePointer()"?
Message-ID: <91170.181652GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 19 Jun 91 18:14:52 GMT
References: <19997@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1382@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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In article <1382@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) says:
>
>In article <19997@csli.Stanford.EDU> bratt@csli.Stanford.EDU (Harry Bratt)
>writes:
>>I need to change the position of Intuition's mouse pointer.  I
>>don't need lots of low-level control (like recording mouse movements
>>and playing them back), I just need a single re-positioning once
>>in a while.
>
>Look into the RKMs with the Input device. You can create Input events
>of the Pointerpos kind. This will do exactly what you want.

That's the way to do it. But are you really *SURE* you have to do it ?
I don't like other programs to mess around with the mouse pointer.
And if you do, set it back to it's original position afterwards.
Again: think twice before doing such a thing. If there exists another
(legal) way to do what you want then do it that way, even it that
method needs more code.


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