The cursor moves progressively deeper after hitting successive windows.

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... our novel approach, called Switchback Cursor, the mouse cursor can move underneath windows by hitting them (it does not move freely in 3D). When a user holds both the left and the right mouse buttons, the cursor moves from the edge of a window to the background, so that it can control the objects there. Fig. 2 shows how the cursor moves underneath windows using our proposed technique. A movie showing the behavior of the Switchback Cursor can be viewed at [1]. ...

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... developed our system for Windows7. The system obtains windows information such as the handler, position, size, window style, and z-order and monitors these parameters. When a user presses both mouse buttons, the cursor moves to the same layer as the window beneath it. For example, Fig. 2 shows that a user moves the cursor from its initial position to a position above window 1 and presses both buttons, so the cursor moves to the layer of window 1. If the user keeps pressing both buttons and moving the cursor to the left, it moves underneath window 0. In the same way, the cursor can move to progressively deeper layers by ...

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... both buttons are not pressed, the cursor aims to move to the front side but it hits the window above itself and remains in the layer behind the window. For example, in Fig. 2, a user releases the mouse button(s) when the cursor is underneath window 0, it remains behind window 0. If the cursor is returned from window 0 without pressing at least one button, it moves to the foreground and dissolves the topmost setting of window ...