Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-17 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:46:31AM -0700, david mattatall wrote: >On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:03, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote: >> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would >> it be used? > >1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two >acti

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-16 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Egbert van der Wal wrote: >One very simple use of two mice and two cursors would be the use of the same >computer by two people. > >I often find myself working at something together with someone else when we >keep passing the mouse over to eachother when it would be a whole

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-16 Thread Egbert van der Wal
One very simple use of two mice and two cursors would be the use of the same computer by two people. I often find myself working at something together with someone else when we keep passing the mouse over to eachother when it would be a whole lot simpler and more effective if we both had a mous

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, david mattatall wrote: >> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would >> it be used? > >1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two >actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the >cursors s

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread david mattatall
On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:03, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote: > Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would > it be used? 1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread Grant Wallace
--- Kieran O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why would you want more than one pointer? and more > importantly how would > it be used? I wonder if you are not making life > more difficult than it > needs to be. Actually the more I think about the > more I really want to > know the answer to

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-09 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Grant Wallace wrote: > I earlier had a question regarding how to support > multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a > Window Manager to handle this. I can see how the > window manager can handle moving windows > simultaneously and redirecting input to windows > simul

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-09 Thread Kieran O'Sullivan
Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would it be used? I wonder if you are not making life more difficult than it needs to be. Actually the more I think about the more I really want to know the answer to thoes two questions. __

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-08 Thread Alex Deucher
the problem is X is fundamentally based on the concept of a single cursor. Most if not all GUIs are. Alex --- Grant Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I earlier had a question regarding how to support > multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a > Window Manager to handle this. I can s

How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-08 Thread Grant Wallace
I earlier had a question regarding how to support multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a Window Manager to handle this. I can see how the window manager can handle moving windows simultaneously and redirecting input to windows simultaneously. But I'm wondering how would one render mult