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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Cursor Control
Message-ID: <2928@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 02:13:40 GMT
References: <38587@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
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Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <38587@bbn.COM> llovero@bbn.com (Linda Lovero) writes:
>I haven't 
>been able to find any calls that allow the application to control the location
>of the cursor. My application needs to have complete control over the cursor
>tracking since I need to use an input device which is not the mouse.

Only mouse and keyboard input are well supported by standard X.  X can
be extended, however, to support other input devices, such as trackballs,
bitpads, etc.  Input extensions are still being standardized by the X
Consortium, but there is some documentation in the X extensions manual
under "input extensions".
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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