Chapter 15 Extended Stream Input Facilities

15.4 The Pointer Protocol

pointer [Protocol Class]
Summary:
The protocol class that corresponds to a pointing device. If you want to create a new class that behaves like pointer, it should be a subclass of pointer. Subclasses of pointer must obey the pointer protocol. Members of this class are mutable.

pointerp [Function]
Arguments:
object
Summary:
Returns t if object is a pointer; otherwise, it returns nil.

:port [Initarg]
Summary:
Specifies the port with which the pointer is associated.

standard-pointer [Class]
Summary:
The instantiable class that implements a pointer.

pointer-port [Generic Function]
Arguments:
pointer
Summary:
Returns the port with which the pointer pointer is associated.

pointer-sheet [Generic Function]
Arguments:
pointer
(setf pointer-sheet) [Generic Function]
Arguments:
sheet pointer
Summary:
Returns (or sets) the sheet over which the pointer pointer is located.

pointer-button-state [Generic Function]
Arguments:
pointer
Summary:
Returns the state of the buttons of the pointer pointer. This is represented as the logior of the values obtained from pointer-event-button.

pointer-position [Generic Function]
Arguments:
pointer
Summary:
Returns the x and y position of the pointer pointer as two values.

(setf* pointer-position) [Generic Function]
Arguments:
x y pointer
Summary:
Sets the x and y position of the pointer pointer to the specified position. For the details of setf*, see Appendix C.4, "Multiple-Value Setf."

pointer-cursor [Generic Function]
Arguments:
pointer
(setf pointer-cursor) [Generic Function]
Arguments:
cursor pointer
Summary:
A pointer object usually has a visible cursor associated with it. These functions return (or set) the cursor associated with the pointer pointer.


CLIM 2.0 User's Guide - OCT 1998

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