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- Numbers & Co.
- Rt. 1, Box 59A
- Oroville, WA 98844
- (509) 476-2216
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- Copyright (C) 1990
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- WHISKERS SHAREWARE NOTICE:
- Version 2.6a
-
- Whiskers is being distributed in the shareware market, you are free to
- make copies to pass along to others who might find Whiskers useful. All
- files (Invoice.txt, Whiskers.dll, Whiskers.exe, Whiskers.txt, WhiskPro
- .wri and W-header.txt) must be distributed together. W-header.txt is a
- short descriptive for text file. Please use this text for the description
- when uploading Whiskers 2.6a to other BBS's.
-
- If you find that you like Whiskers and find it useful in your work, you
- are expected to pay a registration fee of $15.00 per copy. An invoice
- named INVOICE.TXT is included for your convenience. Checks, Mastercard
- and Visa are accepted for payment. Open the Invoice.txt file with Note-
- pad, select File menu, Page Setup command and set all margins to 0. Then
- select File menu, Print command to print the invoice.
-
- When your registration fee is received, a registration number and a paid
- in full invoice will be sent to you. When you receive your registration
- number it is very important that you enter your registration number ex-
- actly as it appears on your invoice. Technical support and site licenses
- are also available, please call 509-476-2216 for more information.
-
- The file named WhiskPro.wri that is included with this copy of Whiskers
- is a description of the Whiskers(tm) Professional commercial software
- product. Please read this file to learn about the additional features
- and flexibility that Whiskers(tm) Professional has to offer.
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- WHISKERS INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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- To install Whiskers, copy all of the files to the directory you want
- Whiskers to be in. Then use the File Manager or Program Manager to start
- Whiskers, using the Whiskers.exe file. Whiskers.exe uses another file
- (included with Whiskers) named Whiskers.dll. The Whiskers.dll is a
- Dynamic Linked Library. Be sure to keep the Whiskers.exe and Whiskers.dll
- in the same directory. If you have an older version of Whiskers that used
- a file named Rodent.exe, please delete the Rodent.exe file. Whiskers
- no longer needs it.
-
- To run Whiskers, double click on its icon in the Program Manager or the
- Whiskers.exe file in the File Manager. Another Whiskers icon will appear
- at the botton of your screen. At this point the Whiskers icon will have
- bars showing and Whiskers is running. The bars indicate that the mouse
- button clicks are being captured and processed as the default settings.
- To view or change the default settings, see the "Programming the Mouse
- Buttons" section below.
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- Whiskers requires a minimum of 18K of memory to run. When using either
- hideit option the minimum memory required to run Whiskers is 7K.
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- LOAD LINE:
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- You can put Whiskers on the load line of the WIN.INI file. Making a
- Whiskers entry on the load line will run Whiskers when Windows is first
- started. It is recommended that you make the Whiskers entry on the LOAD
- line and not the run line.
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- HIDEIT FEATURE:
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- Whiskers has a "Hide Whiskers" checkbox in the buttons dialog box and a
- "Hide Whiskers" command on the menu. These options allows you to hide the
- Whiskers icon. This reduces screen clutter.
-
- The "Hide Whiskers" command on the menu will hide the Whiskers icon im-
- mediately, but will only stay in affect for the present Windows session.
-
- The "Hide Whiskers" checkbox in the buttons dialog box requires that a
- Whiskers entry is on the LOAD line of the WIN.INI file. This option is
- permanent until the checkbox is unselected. With this option when Windows
- is started, the Whiskers icon will be hidden automatically.
-
- When using the "Hide Whiskers" menu command, if you find that you need to
- change a button setting or edit the Exclusion List, start Whiskers by
- double clicking the icon in the Program Manager and the Whiskers icon will
- appear at the bottom of the screen. Any editing can now be done.
-
- When using the "Hide Whiskers" checkbox option, if you find that you need
- to change a button setting or edit the Exclusion List, you must delete the
- line in the WIN.INI file in the [Whiskers] section that reads hideit=on,
- then start Whiskers again by double clicking the icon in the Program
- Manager and the Whiskers icon will appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Any editing can now be done.
-
- When either of the "Hide Whiskers" options are selected the memory required
- to run Whiskers drops to approximately 7K.
-
- PROGRAMMING THE MOUSE BUTTONS:
- 2 and 3 Button Mice
-
- Click once on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of your screen and the sy-
- stem menu will pop up. Select the Buttons... command and a dialog box
- titled "Whisker's Mouse College" will appear. The Right and Middle button
- key combinations have been programmed with default key values. You may
- change any of these defaults that you wish. For example, to program the
- Right button to be the DELETE key, turn the checkbox on, then click on the
- down arrow of the listbox that is in the "no shifts" row and in the Right
- button column. Scroll the listbox until you find the DELETE entry and
- then select it. Now press the OK button.
-
- To program the Shift+Right button combination, follow the same steps as
- above, but make your selection in the listbox in the "shift" row and right
- button column. Follow these steps for programming each of the combina-
- tions. Repeat these steps for programming the Middle button on a three
- (3) button mouse.
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- PASS SHIFT STATES:
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- By default the Pass Shift States checkboxes are unselected. An example of
- passing or not passing the Shift States is as follows:
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- The Shift+Right button combination has the assignment of PASTE from the
- listbox and the Shift State checkbox is unselected. When the Shift key
- and the right mouse button are pressed together, the Paste command will
- be executed. Now with the Shift State checkbox selected, and the Shift+
- Right button combination has the assignment of the Insert key, when the
- Shift key and the right mouse button are pressed together, the Paste
- command will be executed also.
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- When the Pass Shift States is selected, the Shift key message is actually
- passed on the the active application to be processed. When the Pass Shift
- States is unselected, the Shift key is used to give Whiskers another key
- combination, the Shift message IS NOT passed to the active application.
-
- SHIFT LEFT BUTTON & LEFT DOUBLE CLICK
-
- If you want to use either the Shift Left Button or the Shift Left Double
- Click selections, it is recommended that you program these selections on
- the shift line of either button and select the pass Shift States checkbox.
- Otherwise erratic results may occur depending on the applications that
- you are working with.
-
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- LOGITECH MICE:
-
- If you have a Logitech Bus Mouse you will need to call Logitech Tech
- Support at 415-795-8100 to get a new lmouse.drv file. This new lmouse.drv
- file will support the middle button of your mouse.
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- MIDDLE BUTTON SIMULATION:
-
- To turn on the Middle button simulation, click on the Whiskers icon at the
- bottom of the screen and then select the buttons command. In the buttons
- dialog box select the Middle Button Simulation checkbox and then press the
- OK button. This checkbox will enable the middle button simulation.
-
- Whiskers can simulate a Middle button on a two (2) button mouse. To do
- the middle button simulation press and hold down the right mouse button
- and then QUICKLY click the left mouse button. The left button will ac-
- tivate whatever key you have assigned to the "no shift middle button". If
- you find that the click rate is too fast or too slow for you, the click
- rate can be changed in the Control Panel, Mouse section, Double Click Rate.
- To do the other middle button key combinations, press and hold down the
- right button and any of the shift keys and then click the left button.
- When you let up on the right button, the mouse will revert back to its
- normal state. To program the simulated Middle button, just follow the steps
- for programming the middle button of a three (3) button mouse.
-
- The Shift Left click sequence may be assigned to the right or middle but-
- ton, but in some applications it will not work. For example, in Excel and
- Notepad the Shift Left click assignment to the right or middle button will
- produce the approperiate extended selection. However, in the File Manager,
- which uses Shift Left click for extended file selection, Whiskers will not
- work. This problem of Whiskers not working with some applications is
- caused by the way those applications were written and there is no way for
- Whiskers to get around this.
-
- EXCLUSION LIST:
-
- Click once on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of your screen and the
- system menu will pop up. Select Exclude... and a dialog box will appear.
- Follow the instruction in the dialog box for excluding certain programs
- from Whiskers attention.
-
- You can also turn Whiskers ON and OFF manually by double clicking on the
- Whiskers icon at the bottom of the screen. Or Clicking once on the icon
- at the bottom of the screen and then selecting Whiskers ON or OFF from
- the system menu.
-
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- TO EXCEL USERS:
-
- A Rodent.exe has been marketed separately in the past as an Excel add in.
- If you have purchased the Rodent for Excel, just delete the Rodent.exe
- file and any macros that you may be using. Whiskers is a complete re-
- placement for the Rodent.
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