Re: mouse position question

["Chas Owens" <chas owens gmail com>]

On 12/29/06, Vulpes Velox <v velox vvelox net> wrote:
> Just been looking through the pods that come with it. I am not seeing
> any that truely stand out as containing what I am looking for and the
> ones I have checked did not.
>
> Is there any way to get the position of the pointer and change it?
>
> If not any suggestions for other perl modules for this?

It seems as if it is a bad idea.  What specific effect are you trying
to achieve?

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Can I move the mouse pointer myself?

There is an Xlib routine called XWarpPointer() that does this, but GDK
does not wrap it. It is almost certainly a bad idea to use this
feature (in fact it is intended for window managers only); you might
consider writing to one of the GTK+ or Gnome mailing lists to ask for
another way to achieve whatever you are trying to achieve. However,
you can always use Xlib routines (such as XWarpPointer()) by including
gdk/gdkx.h and gdk/gdkprivate.h, then manipulating the private parts
of the GDK data structures. If that sounds unsavory, it probably
should.
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