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From: CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: moving mouse pointer under program control
Message-ID: <71206CXT105@PSUVM>
Date: 11 Feb 89 20:19:49 GMT
References: <17871@gatech.edu> <6443@hoptoad.uucp> <1858@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <6476@hoptoad.uucp> <630@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: Ghostwheel, Inc.
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In article <630@internal.Apple.COM>, lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) says:

>TIm is exactly right when he points out the compatibility dangers of
>moving the mouse under program control.  If you are doing this for a
>personal program, then go ahead and blast away at low memory.  Just don't
>complain to us if it breaks in a future system.

I have one minor point to bring up here:  the exceptionally popular game
"Crystal Quest" moves the cursor to the center of the screen at the start of
every level.  I discovered this when Pyro kicked in after I left the game
paused too long.  The cursor came back when Pyro quit, and Crystal Quest never
again called HideCursor.

I've never had any trouble running CQuest on any machine I've had access to,
although I have been using exclusively Systems 4.2 and 6.0.2....

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