Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!corwin.ccs.northeastern.EDU!mckee From: mckee@corwin.ccs.northeastern.EDU (George McKee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The morality of warping the cursor Message-ID: <8806302123.AA05002@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU> Date: 30 Jun 88 21:23:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Things get more interesting if you have more than one cursor. For instance if you have a text window that allows you to cut from anywhere but paste and type only at one point, like a (pardon the expression) Sun shelltool does, it's real nice to have the text cursor warp down to the fixed typein point whenever you type any character. But the mouse pointer doesn't warp. You can then unwarp the text cursor back to wherever the mouse pointer is with a single button click. I could envision a complex system with several kinds of cursors under control of different mouse buttons, some of which are warped by the program under certain conditions. There should always be something like a window-manager-cursor that never gets warped, though. - George McKee NU Computer Science