coop@panther.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cooperate) (03/30/90)
I am trying to develop an application to cut an arbitrary part of the screen from the SGI (News server, 4D). I have managed to do that by opening a little window on the screen, trapping the mouse-down event in it and then executing a fullscreen() to be able to follow the mouse around the screen to draw the rubber-band and eventually get the coordinates on the mouse-up. Now, the question is : can I do that without using the window, i.e. specify to the NeWS server that from now until later I want ALL the mouse events, something equivalent to the X call XGrabPointer (as you can see, I am an X man. Sorry to abuse you, folks) Boris Pelakh "Software - a spell one casts on a pelakh@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu computer to transform input into coop@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu errors." -- Me Disclaimer : If my employer knew what I did with the time I get paid for, I would be out of a job. Let's keep this between us, OK ?