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Re: Restricted mouse movement?
>>>>> "Peter" == Ethan Fischer <allanon@u.washington.edu> writes:
In article <4lhuf5$csb@nntp5.u.washington.edu> allanon@u.washington.edu (Ethan Fischer) writes:
Peter> Hello. I've been thinking that it would be really
Peter> nice if i was able to restrict the movement of the mouse to
Peter> the inside of the Executor window in X. This would be most
Peter> useful because i often switch X to a lower resolution so i
Peter> can actually see stuff (having a small monitor is annoying)
Peter> but keep the virtual resolution set at 1024x768 because
Peter> it's faster and most programs expect a large screen.
Peter> Anyway, if i were to play something like Lemmings and moved
Peter> to the mouse to the side of the screen to scroll the
Peter> playing field, i would most often move it too far which
Peter> would cause the display to scroll over and change the
Peter> palatte and is generally annoying.
Yup, we're aware of this problem.
Peter> So is it possible to restrict the movement to the
Peter> window with the current version (q12 or beta0)? If not,
Peter> are there any plans to do this?
You can't restrict the movement now and probably won't be able to do
it in E2.
Peter> The only problem i can see with this is if there
Peter> weren't any safegaurds built in in case Executor crashed
Peter> and you weren't able to move the mouse to an xterm or
Peter> something and kill it.
Right and that's a big enough potential problem that we decided not to
implement it. Of course you can get yourself in trouble on the
SVGAlib version already so perhaps we're just being worry warts.
Peter> Just a thought. I hope all of that made sense.
Peter> Peace...
Peter> - Peter Federighi (federigp@elwha.evergreen.edu) --
Peter> Ethan Fischer allanon@u.washington.edu
Peter> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~allanon
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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