How to move cursor in MVC?

lex at cc.gatech.edu lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Nov 16 22:02:29 UTC 2004


Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
> In the latter case, well, complain to the VM folks to restore the 
> CursorLocPut primitive. Or do it on your own, via FFI.

FWIW, there's good reason to leave it out: it is not possible on all
devices.  If the mouse is a stylus, there is no humane way for the
device to reach out and move it.  Thus, adding a primitive would break
the pixel-for-pixel cross-platform execution that we are used to in
Squeak.



Lex



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