Moving Stacks or the Mouse

[Roger Guay]

Thom,

Thank you for this suggestion.  First let me explain that I am  
building an animated tutorial and otherwise agree with you on the  
inadvisability of moving the mouse for the user.  However my tutorial  
I will require the "animation" of the mouse to occur over many  
different paths across open stacks.  How would I generate list of  
points for many paths that would result in a smooth animation of the  
mouse movement?

You can see why I also thought of moving a tiny stack whose  
windowShape is a hand or pointer from the location of a point of one  
stack to the location of a point in another stack.  This I have done,  
but I still wonder if there isn't an easier way??

Thanks and cheers, Roger

Ps.  I'm sorry I dropped the Subject Heading last go-around.


On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:26 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> You might want to have a list of the coordinates in a variable and  
> then
> go through each line in a loop with:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put "252,348" & cr & "267,323" & cr & "274,318" & cr & "285,275"  
> & cr
> & "292,248" into myLocs -- for a sample
>
> --or adjust this to your needs
> --put globalLoc(the loc of group h) & cr after myLocs
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in myLocs
>    set the screenMouseLoc to (line x of myLocs)
>     wait 500 milliseconds
> end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
> thereby making the mouse move to the points in the list. IMPORTANT  
> this
> is not normal HIG behavior and users do not like it when the mouse is
> moved for them. It does have it's good points and I use it in animated
> tutorials.
>
> I set points
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Not quite what I want.  I want to simulate (script) the MOVEMENT of
>> the mouse from one location to another across stacks.  I don't  
>> want to
>> just set the mouse location but rather move it uniformly from one
>> location to another.  Am I still missing something obvious??
>>
>> Cheers, Roger
>>
>>
>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:41 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What you need is: set the screenMouseLoc to tH,tV
>>> Check the screenMouseLoc property in the docs :-)
>>>
>>> Le 8 juin 05 à 23:08, Roger Guay a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Xavier.  I am aware of the ability to drag a tool from one
>>>> point to another, But drag mouse does not work!  And of course,
>>>> this is what I really want . . . I want to drag the mouse from one
>>>> point to another across open stacks.  Since I could not figure out
>>>> how to do this specifically, I then decided to move a tiny window
>>>> with a "hand" shape from a point within one stack to a point in
>>>> another stack.  To do this, I have successfully worked out the
>>>> required geometry.  But, I still wonder if there is a way to move
>>>> the mouse itself??  Am I missing something obvious??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards from Paris,
>>>
>>> Eric Chatonet.
>