Re: Moving Intuition pointer

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From: Matt Dillon
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 06:05

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>   A while ago, I think I saw someone proposing to have DMouse move the
>Intution pointer whenever a requester came up. I have come across a project
>concerning helping disabled people to use Workbench, and we need to make the
>pointer scan the WB screen. I've experimented a bit with stealing the sprite,
>with little success. Is the a supported way of pushing the mouse around, apart
>from using the device on the table? Or an unsupported way? I'm pretty scared
>about poking into IntuitionBase private section.
>                                                   Yours, Henrik Clausen
>                                                          hrc@daimi.dk

	The only valid way to move the intuition pointer is to insert
mouse events into the input event stream.  Take a look at the docs on
the input.device ...

					-Matt

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