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From: steve@wildcat.UUCP (Steve Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: How to do a "MovePointer()"?
Message-ID: <steve.4764@wildcat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 03:29:40 GMT
References: <19997@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: wildcat!steve@alphalpha.com
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>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.
>Currently I'm doing:
>
>IntuitionBase->MouseX = x;
>IntuitionBase->MouseY = y;
>SetPointer(...);
  If you do it that way, remember to LockIBase() first. The correct way to
do this is to send the input.device a pointer-positioning message.
>
>This appears to work....  but...
>Is it legal to be writing to those IntuitionBase variables?  And
>is there a better way to be doing this?
>
> -Harry
>  bratt@csli.stanford.edu

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