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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grabbing the mouse port.
Message-ID: <1062@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 20:03:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 20:03:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 20:04:10 EST
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <33485@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 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.

But what I want is joystick events. I'm working on a game that needs two
joystick inputs. Hey, for the next Amiga 500 (Amiga 250?), how about
sticking some more joystick ports in?

> >As an alternative, is it possible to use the mouse port as a joystick
> >port...
> Not really, Intuition keeps resetting it back to mouse mode.

See above.
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