Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!amdahl!kevin From: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DMouse Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 88 14:22:24 GMT References: <8809281725.AA21445@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 31 In article <8809281725.AA21445@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: >Eddy Carroll writes: >>check to see if the requester being opened contains a string gadget which is >>initially selected; if it does, then position the mouse pointer over the >>cursor in the string gadget when it opens. Hey presto, no more problems with >>having to move the mouse pointer whenever one of those File requesters > > Ugg!! Never! I've used plenty of systems that 'move' the mouse for >you and I would never subject that sort of torture to the Amiga community! >The mouse should be moved by exactly one source ... the user. I agree that >a fix needs to be made, but not that. > So, how about bringing the requester up under the mouse. This is much more presumptuous (DMouse overriding the oroginal programmer's intent), and may not work all the time (for example if the window that is opening the requester is not under the mouse pointer), but might work and you wouldn't have to change the mouse pointer position. > -Matt kevin -- UUCP: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,seismo,oliveb}!amdahl!kevin DDD: 408-737-5481 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]