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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 14 Mar 1994 02:01:54 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <2lrtvn$icf@daisy.cc.utexas.edu> ddt@daisy.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) writes:
>The bad news: I hope y'all don't mind if I restrict the ports to
>keyboard input.  I'm kinda wondering about the rudeness of yanking the
>mouse into the window for mouse control.  Would rather not muck with
>it.  Real men use keyboards only anyway.. (I'm an incurable vi loser).

Well, from one "incurable vi loser" to another, I think not doing the
mouse stuff is a big handicap.  With X, you should get focus notification
events and/or enter/leave notify events and be able to deal with then as
needed.

The issue of using it as an input device without grabbing the mouse should
be fairly easy, as there is already a working example of this type of usage
for control in cbzone (the Battle Zone clone).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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