Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DMOUSE V1.00 Message-ID: <8805110705.AA27969@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 07:05:12 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 48 : 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.) I think I can safely ignore that one. It's because the mouse will reappear when intuition calls ChangeSprite()... which can occur for reasons other than mouse movement. But, since the screen blanker comes on after 5 min, this will not cause a problem (I'll just stick in another mouse-blank routine when the screen blanks). > 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. > I'll see what I can do. > 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. Good point. I'll put in a check when you type as well. > 4) When I used > dmouse -a500 > my mouse pointer stayed on the borders all the time! What gives? :-) You deserve it! 500? Woooa. >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.) Get ready for the next installment (due to many people's input) Major fix: You will be able to endcli from your workbench startup script! -Matt