Computer Science Canada

Wondering

Author:  Stuperman [ Fri Nov 29, 2002 4:55 am ]
Post subject:  Wondering

is it possible to set the position of the mouse cursor?, if so then how? help would be appreciated.

Author:  Tony [ Fri Nov 29, 2002 5:54 pm ]
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to my knowledge, it is not possible to set mouse cursor possition in turing, just read it MouseWhere(x,y,b)

If you really want to do that, there's an API call for that, which you can use in Visual Basic. And I have a feeling you can use the same .dll with C/C++.

The only way around it (as I see) is to hide the cursor and draw a vertual one... basically your own graphic. Then you can move that, relative to actual mouse movement, but you might run into problem since you can't move the mouse off the screen Sad

Author:  Stuperman [ Sat Nov 30, 2002 3:34 pm ]
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Well, thanks, for the suggestion

Author:  Dan [ Sat Nov 30, 2002 6:48 pm ]
Post subject:  one more thing

one thing to add to that is that some verions of turing will not let you hide the mouse curser. so dont go nuts trying to do it Laughing . i think 3.1.1 has the thing to do it but it only wroks in dos, messed up eh?

Author:  Tony [ Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:51 pm ]
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yes, Holt has a reputation of not doing things right, and if they do, you can expect they will remove that feature in next releace.

You don't need to manipulate mouse position for simple programming. If you're doing something advanced, I sujest moving on to a more powerful, WORKING language.

Author:  Stuperman [ Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:15 pm ]
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i would but the only other language i know/have i qbasic, which is was obsolete before i was born.
lol

Author:  Tony [ Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:53 pm ]
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well its time to move on... You don't want to be stuck with turing for the rest of your life.

There's are a number of FREE C/C++ compilers available.

VB is a build-in language into MS Office so you can just open up a Word Document, load Macro screen and do some VBing. Having a full version would help.

Author:  Dan [ Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:08 pm ]
Post subject:  hummm

makes you think, you can pay like 70+ dolares for turing wihc is not a great progmaing lauge for doing big things and making good games or you can pay nothing for a c/c++ compiler wich is useds in some of the best games out there.

interesting eh?

Author:  Stuperman [ Mon Dec 02, 2002 11:45 am ]
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Sweet thanks for the VB in word thing

paying for somethingthat is worse than the free thing.
Now that's irony.

(well, not really, but i can't think of a better word)


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