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Re: Changing mouse position from Pharo.

Posted by philippeback on Mar 13, 2013; 1:52pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Changing-mouse-position-from-Pharo-tp4676580p4676602.html

This feature would be nice to have in the base system and not require FFI.

Glad you have an answer!

Phil

2013/3/13 Carla F. Griggio <[hidden email]>:

> Yep, the first thing I tried when I had to deal with this was using
> InputEventSensor, but  I couldn't manage to use it for changing the mouse
> position.
> As the InputEventSensor takes the position from the hardware cursor as you
> say, the workaround we found was actually changing the hardware cursor's
> position using FFI :P
>
> Cheers,
> Carla
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:25 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> The InputEventSensor does some reading about that and at one point
>> updates the ActiveHand.
>>
>> But it looks like we do read that from primitives. Not sure there is a
>> way to do that.
>> Interesting question!
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> 2013/3/13 Santiago Bragagnolo <[hidden email]>:
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> >     I'm doing a bizarre experiment where i need to change the position
>> > of
>> > the mouse to a fixed point (like make the mouse pointer to jump from
>> > where
>> > it is to a button). Does anyone have a clue about how to?
>> >
>> >  Thanks in advance!
>> >
>> > Santiago
>>
>