RE: XWarpCursor doesn't "stick"

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Bill,

Did Server Test 55 solve your problem?

I don't recall seeing an email from you stating that the problem was fixed.

Let me know for sure and I'll get the patch committed.

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/

Thanks,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Trost, Bill
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: 'Harold L Hunt'
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: XWarpCursor doesn't "stick"
>
>
>     From: Harold L Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
>
>     So lets say that the Windows cursor is at 100, 100 (screen
>     coords), the upper left-hand corner of the Cygwin/XFree86
> client area is
> at
>     25, 25 (screen coords) and a warp request comes in to move to the X
> cursor
>     to 200, 200 (X windows coords).  I am thinking of two things that you
>     could be saying:
>
>     1) ...
>
>     2) Or, I receive a request to move the cursor to a final
>     location of 200, 200 and I do so, which fails to take into
> account that
> the X
>     cursor root is at 25, 25 in Windows screen coodinates.
>
> It looks like #2 to me. Email sure makes it hard to explain some things,
> doesn't it?
>
> Visually, the effect is, if I simply run "XWin" (so that the X
> root occupies
> a maximized Windows window), after a large warp, tweaking the mouse will
> cause the pointer to jump up one title-bar height.
>
>     ...I need to query for the
>     upper-left hand corner of the Cygwin/XFree86 client area
>     before calling SetCursorPos so that I can offset the final
> destination.
>
> That's what I guess needs fixing.
>
>     Notice that no one has really request the WarpCursor
>     functionality before, that's why it doesn't work yet. :)
>
> Really?  I'm shocked!   (-:
>
>