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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1684.0. "DECPAINT to take input from file?" by IOSG::BILSBOROUGH (Be Environment friendly, kill yourself) Tue Nov 07 1989 05:34

    
    Can anyone help
    
    	I've got a project to do and at the moment I'm just wondering if it
    is possible at all!!.  The question are ...
    
    
    1.	Is it possible to write an application which can scan the keyboard
    and mouse and allow things to go on as normal for the other
    applications. 
    
    2.  Is it possible for DECPAINT to take it's input from a file instead
    of keyboard and mouse.  So that for example, I could give it a file and
    it would use it to move the pointer around, choose an icon, menu etc.
        How big a hack would it be? 
    
    I also need to know if these things are very difficult to do just so I
    can decide whether to do it at all.
    
	I'm sorry if these questions are naive but I haven't a clue yet
    about DECwindows.
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
    Mike
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