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META-MOUSE: A Cursor Visibility Enhancement Utility
Version 1.5
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Copyright 1992,1993 Farpoint Software
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This program may be freely copied and distributed, as long as the
following conditions are met: (1) No fee is charged other than a normal
time usage fee required by some Bulletin Board Services, or a small
disk duplication fee not to exceed $8, (2) The program is distributed
in its original, unmodified form, and (3) This document file is
included with the executable file without modification. This program
may not be bundled with, or transferred as part of, any package which
is sold or for which any licensing fee is charged.
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This program is released as shareware. This means that you may use the
program for a trial period of up to 30 days, but if you continue to
use it regularly thereafter, a registration fee of $18 is requested.
The registration fee may be sent to:
Farpoint Software
2501 Afton Court
League City, TX 77573-3438
U.S.A.
phone: 713-332-3782
fax: 713-332-4730
For shipping destinations outside the U.S.A., please add $5 for
shipping and handling. Inside the U.S.A., add $2 for S/H.
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This program can also be registered through Compuserve. Type GO SWREG.
The program title is "Meta-Mouse version 1.5". The registration ID
number is 1450. The additional overseas S/H fee does not apply if
you register through Compuserve (you will still get a disk).
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Upon registering, you will be mailed a disk containing the most recent
version of the program. PLEASE SPECIFY THE VERSION NUMBER THAT YOU HAVE.
Telephone support is always available.
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Meta-Mouse is a program for Microsoft Windows whose purpose is to improve
the visibility of the mouse cursor. This is accomplished in several ways:
(1) The cursor can be made to blink on and off, (2) The cursor can be
made much larger, displaying either a large black arrow with a white
border, a large white arrow with a black border, a large inverse-color
arrow, or numerous others, (3) The cursor can be made to change its
shape dynamically (see the "Ultra-High Visibility" option), and (4) The
normally "white" part of the cursor can be changed to one of several
other colors, including dynamic color cycling.
There are three files in the archive:
METAMOUS.EXE - The executable program.
METAMOUS.DOC - This file.
METAMOUS.REG - A registration form
The registration form is a simple ASCII text file. One method of print-
ing it would be to start Windows Notepad, "open" the file METAMOUS.REG,
and select "print" from the Notepad menu.
To install the program, simply copy the EXE file into any desired
directory on the hard disk, then start the program as you would any
other Windows program, i.e. place an entry into the Program Manager and
double-click it, or select File/Run from the Program Manager menu and
type the full pathname of METAMOUS.EXE as the comamnd line. An entry
for Meta-Mouse can be placed into a Program Manager group by "dragging"
the file METAMOUS.EXE from File Manager into the desired Program
Manager group window. If you install Meta-Mouse into the "Startup"
group in Windows 3.1, it will be automatically loaded each time you
start Windows.
Meta-Mouse starts up as an icon. It can be configured from the "Setup"
dialog box, accessible from the icon's system menu. (Single-click the
running icon to get the system menu.) While the dialog box is visible,
the following parameters can be set:
Blink rate: Can be set to 250, 500, or 1000 milliseconds. This is
the approximate time taken by the complete on/off cycle.
Duty cycle: Can be set to 75% or 50%. This determines the on-time-
to-off-time ratio. For example, if the blink rate is set to
1000 milliseconds and the duty cycle is set to 75%, then the
cursor will be "on" for 750 milliseconds and "off" for 250
milliseconds of each cycle.
Blink while moving: If checked, then the cursor will blink at all
times. If this option is unchecked, then the cursor will remain
"on" as long as it is in motion, and will start to blink only
while stationary.
Do not blink: If checked, then the cursor will not blink at all.
This option is used to allow the program to provide the shape
changing feature only.
Hide Icon: If checked, then the running program's icon will not
be displayed on the desktop. In order to access the system
menu, you must run the program again (double-click its icon
in Program Manager). This will temporarily display and activate
the program icon on the desktop. Single-click this icon to
display its system menu. Once any item is selected from the
system menu, or if another window is activated, the icon
again disappears.
Enlarge Window-Sizing Cursors: If checked, the four double-arrowhead
cursors (which appear when the cursor touches the sizing border of
a window) will be more than doubled in size.
System cursor shape: Sets the appearance of the cursor. Try each one
to see its effect. NOTE: The cursor shape labeled "Ultra-High
Visibility" invokes a routine which changes the cursor shape
on-the-fly, but does not actually blink it off. This shape
will not be affected by the "Duty cycle", "Blink while moving",
or "No-blink" options.
"Busy" cursor shape: Sets the appearance of the "hourglass" cursor
to various alternates. To see the effect of each setting, the
"View Busy Cursor" button can be clicked to switch to the
"busy" cursor for two seconds.
"I-Beam" cursor: Many programs use this cursor in text-editing
areas. It is frequently hard to see. The effect of the
increased-size settings can be viewed by moving the cursor
over the box labeled "Test I-Beam Here".
Color: This changes the "white" part of the cursor to a selected
color. Correct operation of this feature is highly dependent
on the video adapter device driver. It should work with MOST
of the drivers supplied by Microsoft, as well as SOME drivers
supplied by other vendors for use with their video adapters.
It is known not to work with several 1280x1024 drivers, and
will probably not work with many graphics accelerator board
drivers. Meta-Mouse can usually determine if the color-change
feature is functioning; the "color enable" check-box will be
grayed if it is determined that the color feature is
incompatible with your driver. This situation will NOT
interfere with the other functions of the program.
Note: be sure to try the "Oh Wow" color setting.
Meta-Mouse automatically saves its configuration in a file named
METAMOUS.INI, which will be created in the default directory the first
time Meta-Mouse is run. Meta-Mouse will NOT put "junk" in your WIN.INI
file, nor will it play with your CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files.
If you are running Meta-Mouse from a network drive, each workstation
should set up the "Program Item Properties" of the icon installed in
Program Manager so that "Working Directory" is set to a local disk
drive. This allows each workstation to have its own INI file and thus
its own Meta-Mouse configuration.
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Farpoint Software
2501 Afton Court
League City, TX 77573-3438
U.S.A.
phone: 713-332-3782
fax: 713-332-4730