NoTopLeft

                     (Feb 98 - Gadge Software)



NoTopLeft is a small cli program whose only task in life is to move the
mouse pointer.

It exists only because i use a boot picture in my startup sequence that
fades out after the WB screen is fully loaded and ready to go, and i
also use a utility which hides the WB title bar unless the mouse pointer
is moved to the top of the screen. This is where NoTopLeft comes in.
I use it simply to move the pointer away from its default top left (0,0)
position so the title bar is hidden as the WB screen fades in and the
mouse pointer is where i want it to be.

NoTopLeft will accept two numeric values passed as arguments. These should
correspond to the screen x and y positions where you want the mouse to be.

  e.g   NoTopLeft 240 120        (places the mouse at x=240 and y=120)

   or   NoTopLeft    (with no values uses defaults of x=360 and y=100)

To use NoTopLeft you can copy it into the Sys:C directory and put a line
such as:

        RUN >NIL: C:NoTopLeft 180 90

                               somewhere in your user-startup sequence.

I have it at the end of my user-startup sequence as this ensures that
the WB screen is open and the mouse is available to be moved.
It also ensures that the program is run before my boot pic fades out
because the command for that is in my WB-Startup drawer.


I only wrote it because i could not find anything similar to do this
small task for me (but i'm sure there must be others somewhere) and
it was quicker to simply write a program than to carry on searching.

Someone else may also require such a program so here it is, free to
anyone who wants it.


It may also be of use to anyone who writes scripts and who may want to
position and re-position the mouse during running to indicate things
that are happening on screen perhaps (just a thought).