In windows I can use <windows.h> and
POINT p;
while (1) {
GetCursorPos(&p);
SetCursorPos(p.x + 3, p.y);
to get the position and change it.
How do I do the same in Linux? Thanks.
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In windows I can use <windows.h> and
POINT p;
while (1) {
GetCursorPos(&p);
SetCursorPos(p.x + 3, p.y);
to get the position and change it.
How do I do the same in Linux? Thanks.
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First Cup of Ubuntu
I found some said reading and writing in the file /dev/input/mice.
It does not work on my computer, though. The system is Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
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When I program I mostly make command line tools, or sometimes tools with command line input but graphical output, but I've made a few programs that use the mouse. I think it's best to use some API that can tell you the mouse position and that's somewhat portable at the same time. Last time I used GLFW. If you install it along with the documentation, the manual should be on your system.
/dev/input/mice shouldn't work, as applications should only know about mouse events in their own window. It only has read and write access for root and the input group.
<--- Run xman to see that window.
I've always used testing programs that send x-events - usually there isn't any need to move the mouse since we can just send the button-click event to the button directly. There are keyboard and mouse recording tools which can be played back. I've been out of this field long enough that I don't recall any names anymore. We used commercial tools which weren't too cheap.
Google found these: https://nnc3.com/mags/LM10/Magazine/...e/article.html says something about xnee, gnee, and cnee.
gnee and cnee are in the 16.04 repos.
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