On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Peter Reid wrote:
> I'm moving the mouse under script control as part of several CBT
> developments suing MC 2.2.5 and MC 2.3 for Mac and Win 98/NT. (I'm
> using two different versions because the earlier one is installed
> across a customer's corporate network and I can't get them to upgrade
> this for the time being! I'm using the latest version for new
> developments for other customers). The idea is that the mouse is used
> to draw the user's attention to different parts of the screen.
>
> So far, this mouse movement has worked fine on various Macs and PCs.
> However, I now find that it doesn't work on my PowerBook G3/333
> "Bronze" - the mouse just sits in one location! My desktop Mac (a
> G3/300 uprated clone) and my PowerBook both run MacOS 8.6, have the
> same amount of RAM (128Mb), and identical copies of the MetaCard
> "Player" (I've copied from one system to the other to be sure). I've
> tried both MC 2.2.5 and MC 2.3 gamma. Both versions work fine with
> my desktop Mac (and with my laptop Win 98 PC), but not my PowerBook???
Do you have an external mouse or trackball attached to that system?
> The following is the code I'm using for scripted mouse movement:
>
> on moveMouse fromLoc,toLoc,inSteps,moveDelayTicks
> put absLoc(fromLoc) into absFrom
> put absLoc(toLoc) into absTo
> put (item 1 of absTo - item 1 of absFrom) div inSteps into xInc
> put (item 2 of absTo - item 2 of absFrom) div inSteps into yInc
> put item 1 of absFrom into x
> put item 2 of absFrom into y
> set the screenMouseLoc to absFrom
> repeat with i = 1 to inSteps
> add xInc to x
> add yInc to y
> set the screenMouseLoc to x,y
> wait moveDelayTicks ticks
> end repeat
> set the screenMouseLoc to absTo
> end moveMouse
>
> function absLoc relLoc
> get the topLeft of this stack
> put item 1 of it into stackX
> put item 2 of it into stackY
> put item 1 of relLoc + stackX into absX
> put item 2 of relLoc + stackY into absY
> return absX & comma & absY into theLoc
> end absLoc
>
> Any ideas why this doesn't work on a PowerBook when it does on a
> variety of other systems?
Anybody else with a PowerBook see this? You should be able to test it
with something as simple as the following in the Message Box:
set the screenMouseLoc to 10,10
Regards,
Scott
PS: I don't really understand the engine code that does this, but do
know that it's one of the things that isn't Carbon compliant and so
will have to be changed...
> Cheers
> Peter
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