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From: ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  DMouse
Message-ID: <16391@cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 22 Sep 88 03:33:14 GMT
References: <8809200700.AA27611@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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In article <8809200700.AA27611@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU
(Matt Dillon) writes:
>>>...not anywhere near as elegant as HeliosMouse or Dmouse.
>>
>>  Yeah, well DMouse ain't perfect either - when a text requester comes up,
>>and the mouse doesn't happen to be over it, the cursor in the requester goes
>>away and I have to move the mouse up and click on it. Sometimes. (2/3 of the
>>time? I haven't kept track, just got pissed off.) Why does it do this? How
>>do I make it stop? AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
>>-- 
>>Dave Lewis      Loral Instrumentation      San Diego    (619) 282-3341
> 
> 	If someone can suggest a clean way to do it (I don't have time to
> do everything).
> 

How about SetFunctioning Intuition's Request() function and making it
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
pops up. Of course, moving the mouse pointer behind the users back is
not really very friendly, but the extra convenience gained would
probably be worth it in this case (particularly if you arranged it so
that the mouse pointer didn't re-appear if it was blanked - the user
probably wouldn't even notice the mouse had moved).

Another small change that would be nice: Left-Right clicking a window
when it is the only window on a screen, or when it is a backdrop window,
sends the screen to the back (this is great). However, doing this to
a normal window which is on the same screen as a backdrop window (e.g.
workbench) doesn't have any effect (unless there are other normal windows
on the same screen). How about making this latter case also send the screen
to the back?

Oh well, just a few thoughts. I have DMOUSE1.09 on all my disks anyway, and
I love it.

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