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Re: Help! Anyone know how to force the mouse to a location?

#12525
From: ISR group account
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 20:17
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bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>    DON'T DO IT.  It's *very* bad technique, and your application
>    won't run, besides.
>[ ... ]
>Tell me what, exactly, this `good purpose' is that you've thought up,
>and I and millions of other Netters will help you come up with a more
>proper way of doing it.

Well, I guess that juist means that you and all the other millions
of Netters don't ever want to use a graphics tablet or a digitizer,
huh?????
Or can you come up with a way to do that without setting the cursor
postion??? 
That's just one example, because I had to do write a driver for one..
I'm sure there's plenty more if I thought about it..
-- 
Mike Schechter, Computer Engineer,Institute Sensory Research, Syracuse Univ.
InterNet: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu   Bitnet: SENSORY@SUNRISE 
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From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account)
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Subject: Re: Help! Anyone know how to force the mouse to a location?
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Date: 7 Jun 90 20:17:27 GMT
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