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From: jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grabbing the mouse port.
Message-ID: <985@mitsumi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 14:27:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 14:27:41 1987
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In article <1041@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
)I've asked this question before, but...
)How do you grab the mouse port away from intuition?
)Can it be done without blowing away intuition?
)If not, can it be done in such a way you still get OpenWindow, etc?

Get an input handler installed before Intuition.  I don't know whether
joystick movements will translate into reasonable InputEvents, but
at least you get Intuition out of the loop and can read the port
directly.

)As an alternative, is it possible to use the mouse port as a joystick
)port without grabbing it away from Intuition
)-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter

Dunno.

	jimm

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	Jim Mackraz
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