[2846] in java-interest
Re: warp pointer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Sawad Brooks)
Tue Oct 17 16:57:42 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Sawad Brooks <sawad@media.mit.edu>
To: julie melbin <julie@world.std.com>
Cc: Christophe Meessen <meessen@cppm.in2p3.fr>,
Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>,
java <java-interest@webrunner.neato.org>
In-Reply-To: <9510171006.AB03388@groton.HQ.Ileaf.COM>
On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, julie melbin wrote:
> At 09:21 AM 10/17/95 +0100, Christophe Meessen wrote:
> >>At 08:56 PM 10/15/95 -0800, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> >>>> Is there anyway to move the system mouse pointer from within a JAVA
> >>>> application/applet?
> >I don't think this is a good thing for a user interface.
> >It is the user that is in control of the mouse. Moving the mouse from
> >withn an application will confuse the user. It is totaly non intuitive.
> >this was one of my grief against OpenLook. The program or system would change
> >the mouse location.
>
> I grant you excessive use of this kind of function can be a bad UI - so is
> too many menu pullrights. Bad UI comes from bad design. Don't limit API
> power in fear of bad UI.
I agree with Julie. Allow designers to experiment,
and then critique, rather than closing off
experimentation altogether. The question of intuitive
vs. non-intuitive is simply a matter of the context
and what one is used to. To assert some universality
to this scheme is detrimental to invention.
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