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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DMOUSE V1.00
Message-ID: <9625@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 00:06:15 GMT
References: <8805091849.AA11920@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <8805091849.AA11920@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
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>	Please report any bugs!
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>					-Matt

Ok.  

  1)  If the mouse has been blanked, and a new screen opens, or the front
      screen is closed, the mouse reappears and does not blank again
      (until 5 seconds after you move it again, of course.)

  2)  Sometimes when the mouse is blanked, some extraneous garbage
      appears on the screen.  When it happens, the garbage is the same
      garbage in the same place every time, but it is different (and usually
      absent) in different invocations of dmouse.  I suspect it has
      something to do with morerows, since I am morerowed to the max 232 lines
      that my monitor can display, and the garbage is always near the
      very bottom of the screen.  The junk did not display on a 200 line
      screen.

  3)  Not a bug, but just a strong preference:  The window under the
      mouse pointer is only activated on mouse movements.  It would be handier
      if the window were activated on any keyboard input as well.  Okay, I'm
      used to heliosmouse and that's how that works.  But heliosmouse + wKeys
      is great because you can change windows and screens without reaching 
      for the mouse, and the window under the mouse always comes up active.

  4)  When I used
        dmouse -a500
      my mouse pointer stayed on the borders all the time!  What gives? :-)



Heh, heh, now there's room for a mouse even on _my_ desk.  After all,
with dmouse running, all you need is 3 square inches...

And finally...the only good feature of TextCraft (mouse blanking) put
into a _real_ program!  (I've been trying to figure out a way to do that
for quite awhile.)


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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP