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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grabbing the mouse port.
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 13:57:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 13:57:57 1987
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In article <1041@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>How do you grab the mouse port away from intuition?

You install an input handler at a higher priority than Intuition in 
the input food chain. The handler gives all mouse events to you.

>Can it be done without blowing away intuition?

Yes

>If not, can it be done in such a way you still get OpenWindow, etc?

See above.

>As an alternative, is it possible to use the mouse port as a joystick
>port without grabbing it away from Intuition (yeh, I know the mouse will
>bobble around. No biggee.)?

Not really, Intuition keeps resetting it back to mouse mode.



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