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MOUSE GRABBER 1.0
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(C) Copyright 1993 by Rudi Breedenraedt.
MGRAB.COM is a part of the Mouse Designer package.
MGRAB.COM may not be distributed without the whole Mouse
Designer package !
WHAT IS THE MOUSE GRABBER ?
MGRAB.COM is a graphical-mouse-arrow grabber that writes the
information of a mouse arrow to MGRABxxx.MOU (where xxx stands
for 000 thru 999), a file format readable by MDESIGN.EXE (Mouse
Designer).
You can then load the MGRABxxx.MOU files into MDESIGN.EXE,
modify them if you like, and then save them to a Basic, Pascal,
C or assembly procedure for use in your own programs.
HOW TO USE THE MOUSE GRABBER ?
First of all, you have to install Microsoft's MOUSE.COM or any
equivalent mouse driver.
Then, you have to load the TSR MGRAB.COM into memory, therfore,
you have to type from the DOS commandline:
C:\> MGRAB.COM /i
The Mouse Grabber is now installed.
Run any program, where there are one or more graphical mouse
arrows you would like to use in your own programs. Take the
needed steps, so that the selected mouse arrow is vivible on the
screen. Then press the PrintScreen key.
If you hear one beep, a MGRABxxx.MOU was successfully created.
In all other cases you hear no, or two beeps. If you hear no
beep, the PrintScreen interrupt was redirected by the running
program to another routine than the mouse grabber. See
'OBTAINING SOURCECODE' for using another hotkey than
PrintScreen.
If you hear two beeps, the running program did not change the
graphical mouse arrow shape or the graphical mouse arrow format
is not of the Mouse Designer compatible type (Mouse Designer can
only work with mouse arrows of 16x16 pixels format).
When you grabbed the wanted mouse arrows, quit the running
program and type on the DOS command line:
C:\> MGRAB.COM /u
to uninstall the Mouse Grabber.
Run now MDESIGN.EXE and load the MGRABxxx.MOU files.
OBTAINING SOURCECODE - CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
If you like to see the sourcecode of MGRAB.COM (written in
Microsoft's Macro Assembler 6.0), you could send me a fee of
US$ 15 (Belgium & Luxembourg: 400 BEF; The Netherlands: ƒ 25.-;
France: 80 FF; Germany: 25 DM; Great Britain: £ 9.-; Europe:
12 ECU).
You will then receive the sourcecode of MDESIGN.EXE (the Mouse
Designer, written in QuickBASIC 4.50) and MGRAB.COM. You will
also receive the latest version of the Mouse Designer package.
You could send your fee by (international) mail order (ask you
post office), (from European countries) by EuroCheque or by any
other way you like, to:
UNITED PROGRAMMERS CLUB
TAV.RUDI BREEDENRAEDT
POSTBUS 40
B-1090 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
You could write to the same address for any comments about the
Mouse Grabber, founded bugs, idea's to ameliorate it, or
anything you like...
THANKS TO...
Thanks to Microsoft for providing a friendly QuickBASIC compiler
and a powerfull Macro Assembler.