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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Positioning the Mac Cursor?
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:46:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 13:46:17 1987
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In article <4104@mnetor.UUCP> luke@mnetor.UUCP (Luke Matthys) writes:
>Does anyone out there know how to alter the position of the Mac's cursor 
>from within an application program?  I know that modifying the cursor
>position variables in low memory works but this is cheating.  The location
>of these variables isn't officially published and therefore can change from
>one release to the next.  Is it possible to provide my own mouse driver?

There's no official way to do this, because we don't want people doing it.
The fact that only the user gets to change the position of the mouse cursor
is one of the basic tenets of our human interface guidelines.  Testing shows
that if the cursor jumps around of its own volition, users lose the feeling
that a direct manipulation interface gives them, of being in control of the
computer rather than vice versa.  So if you do do this, you risk that it
won't work on future machines.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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