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Re: Changing mouse position from Pharo.

Posted by philippeback on Mar 14, 2013; 4:14pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Changing-mouse-position-from-Pharo-tp4676580p4676782.html

Being able to manage the cursor and not only be recipients of it.

For the event system, I understand that the at:1 at:2 .. thing may be
a tad "basic" but it has the advantage of being understandable. So I'd
keep it and then have an adaptation to something smarter.

Phil

2013/3/14 stephane ducasse <[hidden email]>:

> could you explain what would be nice to have in the system?
> We are slowly rewriting the event handling.
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> Stef
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> On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:52 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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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