[PD] move cursor position

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Fri Jun 26 22:39:11 CEST 2009


The mouse cursor is controlled by the Window Manager.  People have  
made various attempts at making objects to control that.  There is a  
working one for X11, donno about Windows or Mac OS X. Check the  
archives, I think Alexandre Quessy wrote the x11 one, its something  
like x11mouse.

.hc

On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Shawn Greenlee wrote:

> thanks for that hc!
>
> though I could only figure out moving the mouse around in edit mode  
> for selecting/moving canvas objects ( like the Help -> Browser->  
> manuals -> pd-msg -> 1.msg_and_patch -> 3.1.motion.pd ) - which  
> would be the mouse, mouseup, and motion messages
>
> I can't seem to find a message that actually moves the user's cursor  
> arrow in Play mode...
>
> for instance if I want to limit a cursor to a particular region of  
> the screen (in Play mode) and have the cursor jump to another point  
> on the screen when told
>
> this doesn't seem to be something documented in the manual under   
> "messages to pd," but perhaps there's something I'm missing with  
> regard to the "messages to canvas"
>
> sort of an idiosyncratic performance interface thing...  thanks!
>
>
>
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> Definitely. Check out the 'pd-msg' manual, its included in Pd- 
>> extended in Help->Browser->manuals
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Shawn Greenlee wrote:
>>
>>> hi folks,
>>>
>>> is there a pd command to force a cursor to a new position?
>>>
>>> a message something like:
>>>
>>> ; cursor
>>> x_coordinate y_coordinate
>>>
>>> for instance I can do this in Max with a Max command:
>>>
>>> ; max
>>> pupdate 400 500
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> shawn
>>>
>>>
>>> Shawn Greenlee
>>> http://greenlee.02909.com
>>> seg at 02909.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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