Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-05 Thread Peter Reid
>On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:36:51 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In the case of the CBTs I'm currently developing, I'm using the mouse > > movement to show the user what they would do with the mouse when > > using a particular feature of a software system. Such "simulations", > > if the

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-04 Thread Marni
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:36:51 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the case of the CBTs I'm currently developing, I'm using the mouse > movement to show the user what they would do with the mouse when > using a particular feature of a software system. Such "simulations", > if they are to b

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-04 Thread Peter Reid
>All the style guides prohibit it. But there are always exceptions to >the rules. My favorite for this one is doing psychology experiments >on the computer (which a lot of people use MetaCard for), in which >case you often need to position the cursor at a particular (often >random) place on the

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Scott Raney
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote: > On 3/3/00 10:11 AM, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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... > > > Someone with

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Mary Bull
Geoff Canyon wrote: > Someone with more Mac Toolbox experience than I will no doubt correct > this, but if I remember correctly, Apple recommends strongly against > setting the location of the pointer. They consider it a violation of the > Apple User Interface Code of Conduct(tm) :-) In any cas

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 3/3/00 10:11 AM, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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... Someone with more Mac Toolbox experience than I will no doubt correct

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Peter Reid
> >Well, here on my G3 333 minitower (last of the beiges!) , it doesn't >work. I remember trying it awhile ago, and it worked fine. That >was when I was running 8.1. >I now have Mac OS 9 (believe me, if you're running pre 8.5, get >it... it's great!) , and it doesn't work worth beans. I am u

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Karl Becker
> > 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 w

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Yennie
<< set the screenMouseLoc to 10,10 >> This also fails on my Powerbook. G3/333 128MB RAM MacOS 9.0 Brian This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Yennie
oh... and I am also using the built-in trackpad. Brian This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Peter Reid
> > 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

Re: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Scott Raney
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

Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Peter Reid
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!