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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: moving mouse pointer under program control
Message-ID: <6443@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 3 Feb 89 19:50:58 GMT
References: <17871@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <17871@gatech.edu> robinson@pravda (Stephen M. Robinson) writes:
>We are using THINK (LightSpeed) C 3 and need to do the following:
>
>   click on a Rect region, hide the cursor, move the mouse point
>   to another Rect (window) and show the cursor again (based upon
>   contents of the first Rect region)

Don't.  In the Mac metaphor this is the equivalent of grabbing the
user's finger and jerking it around.  The mouse is not to be moved
under software control except for helping the disabled.  If you need to
indicate something else as a result of a click, then use a rolling
outline like MacPaint selections, a flashing hilite, or some other
technique that doesn't violate the guidelines.

I have spoken with people who used mouse-moving software on other
computers and the results were *always* confusing and misleading, even
to wizards.  I know how to do this, but I'm not going to tell you, and
there are good reasons Apple doesn't document it either.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
 danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
    -- Aleister Crowley, THE BOOK OF LIES