The phrase "a mouse pointer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the graphical representation of a cursor on a computer screen that allows users to interact with the interface.
Example: "To select the text, move the mouse pointer over the desired words and click."
Alternatives: "cursor" or "pointer".
Do I have a mouse pointer?
Selecting text, managing multiple windows and interacting with spreadsheets is also considerably easier using the stylus like a mouse pointer.
A modern-day Ouija board is set up in the museum's lobby; a viewer asks questions and moves a mouse pointer across the board.
Users typed on a projected virtual keyboard which could track finger motions, while a wrist-worn device acted as a mouse pointer.
You still control the Mac with a mouse pointer and a keyboard, and you don't touch the screen as you would on an iPad.
Scrolling a mouse pointer over one of the buttons causes the box to expand, showing details such as the user's latest e-mail messages, a list of his or her Yahoo Messenger buddies who are currently online, local weather reports, and maps showing traffic congestion on local highways.
But that can be hard the pop-up ad for one major car producer dashes off across the screen as soon as a mouse-pointer comes near it.Related items Power in your handApr 11th 2002 The lights flicker on Madison AvenueMar 27th 2002 The Oscars get NapsterisedMar 25th 2002A more subtle version is "pop-under" advertising.
This has the benefit that in between choosing, the arms can be left to relax without worrying that a mouse-pointer would skitter across the screen and select or highlight something unintentionally.
Observers were required to reproduce, after a short delay, a distance between two sample dots based on a stationary reference dot and a movable mouse pointer.
Both developed systems include a probe with a giant magnetoresistance (GMR) as the magnetic field sensor and a computer mouse pointer as the positioning system.
When you stare at something in everyday life, you're not using the fovea of your eye as a mental mouse pointer.
