----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Arning <arning at charm.net>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: sticky input focus


On Fri, 7 May 1999 09:17:58 -0500 shaping at bigfoot.com wrote:
>I habitually throw the mouse a
>little out of the way when I move back to the keyboard, in order that the
>mouse cursor not visually distort characters typed into an input field.
I'm
>throwing the mouse a little far, and have to reform my motor habits.  The
>overthrow is easy because I can at current gain move the cursor across a
17"
>screen with about 3 cm of mouse movement.

That's a long-standing problem for me, too. Many Mac programs make the mouse
pointer disappear once one starts to type - it reappears as soon as the
mouse moves a bit. When I did some Windows work a few years ago, I *learned*
to throw the mouse so I could see what I was typing. Continuing that in
Squeak causes much typing going nowhere.

Exactly.  It's driving me to tears, almost.

 I think I will experiment with hiding the cursor so I can *unlearn* the
venerable mouse throw.

Please do.  :-)

I think that if I could quickly move the cursor using a command key (like a
Ctrl-Tab for the different panes in a Windows app), this wouldn't bother me
so much, but the cursor would have to land in an obvious but out of the way
place (not in a input field, for example).

Cheers,

Shaping