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Re: Changing mouse position from Pharo.

Posted by stephane ducasse on Mar 14, 2013; 3:42pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Changing-mouse-position-from-Pharo-tp4676580p4676771.html

could you explain what would be nice to have in the system?
We are slowly rewriting the event handling.

Stef

On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:52 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
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