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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: some gripes about OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.182934.13054@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:29:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.061100.19096@infonode.ingr.com> <widow.711587878@camelot> <1992Jul23.082927.147019@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.082927.147019@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
- >widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
- >>bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >>
- >>>Why do I get this garbage that follows the mouse pointer around when I
- >>>run Norton 5.0 file find in a windowed dos box?
- >>
- >> Will setting the mouse_exlusive_access to ON help?
- >> (See only docs for more info. before setting).
- >
- >Actually, as soon as I observed this behavior, I knew what was happening
- >and I immediately went to the config program and changed the seetings to
- >NON-graphical mouse-pointer and windows (I'm talking about the Norton
- >config program mind you).
- >
- >After that, the mouse cursor disappeared! To my delighted surprise, the
- >invisible Norton mouse cursor now correspended with the OS/2 cursor
- >(running in a window). So, I just clicked with the OS/2 cursor on buttons
- >in a text program in a DOS window... and it worked great!
-
- You might have also been able to do this by (instead) turbing on
- MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS. Doing this should get the following response:
- The mouse pointer will remain stationary in the DOS box. When you
- click on the box, the OS/2 pointer will disappear and the DOS box
- pointer will become active. When you switch away from the DOS box
- (with CTRL-ESC, or ALT-ESC), you'll get the OS/2 pointer back.
-
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