From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Dec 23 10:33:23 2008 Message-ID: <49510325.6000209@atari-source.org> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:26:29 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Stehlik CC: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] an urgent GEM question :-) References: <1230022147.7318.6.camel@joy> In-Reply-To: <1230022147.7318.6.camel@joy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Petr Stehlik wrote: > Hello guys, > > could someone please help me with this off-topic question: I'd need to > position the mouse pointer/cursor at defined coordinates on screen. I > have tried using v_dspcur(x, y) but it didn't work. Even my PureC help > file mentions that the function actually never worked. I was curious why > so I wrote the same program in GFA Basic (in case there was a bug in > PureC's GEMLIB) but the mouse cursor still not moved. > > I then resorted to a hack and implemented it using appl_tplay() which > positions the mouse pointer correctly but I am wondering what's wrong > with the v_dspcur() - is it really wrong in all VDI versions? Or am I > just calling it incorrectly? > Oh ho? Is someone porting a vnc server!? :) You would be my best friend if you are. Anyway, I know this is something that the wacom tablet driver by Noah Silva had to handle. I have all of his files but sadly I cannot find the source to this driver. He did say that he explicitly recalls using a VDI function for cursor positioning. Thanks, Mark