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- My Key Mouse
- Virtual mouse keyboard
- version 2.19p MCMXCII
-
- MyKMouse.Exe
-
- This program allows symbolic information input using mouse while
- in text mode. It can be useful for:
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- a. permanent mouse usage rarely interrupting by keyboard need
- b. not represented on the keyboard ASCII symbols input (pseudo-
- graphics, non-printables, etc.)
- c. drawing using all ASCII characters including pseudographic
- symbols in almost any text editor in easy and natural way
-
- My Key Mouse stays resident occupying about 24 kB of memory and
- requires EGA monitor or better and the mouse and its driver of course.
-
- To activate mouse keyboard move the mouse pointer to the upper-left
- screen corner and press the right button. If your software doesn't
- show the mouse (but mouse driver must be installed anyway), just
- pull the mouse diagonalwise up and left and (nevertheless) press
- the right button.
-
- Right then the monitor switches to the 43/50 lines mode, the upper 25 of
- lines remaining for your program's normal activity, while the rest ones
- reveal you keyboard image. (It was this what EGA m*onitor was required for,
- and not what you probably thought of at once.)
-
- Just the same way leads you out of the My Key Mouse active mode -
- the right mouse button pressed at the upper-left screen corner.
- Little hit: exit with left button pressed changes mouse cursor condition
- in your shell - becomes invisible if was visible and becomes visible
- if was not.
-
- Virtual keyboard consists of the keyboard picture itself and ASCII table.
-
- KEYBOARD PART allows you to use all keyboard functions except of
- alternate input, this function is not needed since ASCII part exists.
-
- Button actions in keyboard part:
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- Left button - key press
- Right button - Shift key press
- and Ctrl, Alt or Shft fixation
-
- ASCII PART contains all 255 symols of ASCII table. Pseudographics
- has also their own corner.
-
- Button actions:
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- Left button - enter symbol
- Right button - moves the normal cursor with the mouse till released.
- Left&Right - drawing with the symbol on the screen.
-
- If left button is released the last one moves the cursor to the next
- position after the last entered symbol.
-
- My Key Mouse PSEUDOKEYS:
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- F (frame) - drawing frames with adequate corners and crosses with
- selected pseudographic set.
-
- D (direction) - fixing moving direction, is used for drawing straight
- lines.
-
- S (screen) - choosing one of the methods of the screen restoring after
- exiting My Key Mouse
-
- Please take into account that when drawing the symbols you should have
- "Insert" ON and (in some text editors) few empty lines in your text,
- it can be reached with simple few "Enter" hits.
-
- When "Direction Lock" is ON (it is ON by default) the first mouse
- movie when drawing with the symbol shows in what (the only!) direction
- you can draw. It is very useful when drawing frames, windows, tables.
- When "DirLock" is ON you can see letter "D" selected - and you can
- make "Dirlock" OFF simply by "pressing" this pseudokey on the
- keyboard picture. To change the locked direction you need to release
- and press again right mouse button.
-
- If you want to draw something meaningful (frame, for example), you
- can use one of the four frame sets which are represented at the
- low-right corner of the picture. When "Frame Lock" (pseudokey "F")
- is ON you can draw with one of the sets selected.
-
- There is a code of the symbol under the mouse cursor in the
- lowest-right corner of the keyboard picture. You can switch between
- decimal and hexadecimal values with "pressing" on the code.
-
- And one hint more: the last few positions after the code are not
- empty - they contain space bars, for you could easily erase with
- them some places in the picture you drew.
-
- With "S" pseudokey you can choose one of two methods of restoring
- the screen. The problem is that if you use software char generator
- the screen can be restored with ROM char set. Some adapters
- work correctly even in this case. Anyway there is a way to avoid
- screen disturbance.
-
- Drawing the lines is not accessible in some editors - so sorry.
-
- Few words about compatibility. We can say that programs which
- do not use INT 16 won't work with My Key Mouse, the same with
- programs intercepting INT 33 (mouse). My Key Mouse cannot call
- resident programs waiting for INT 9.
-
- We hope you'll enjoy our program.
-
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- COMPANY ADDRESS:
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- RCS (RusCon Serioga)
- Attn: Heath C. Bair
- 102 W. Sandusky Street
- Fredericktown, Ohio 43019
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- INTERNET ADDRESS:
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- hbair@austin.onu.edu - Heath C. Bair (US Partner)
- joe@smena.russia.msk.su - Joe Ratcatcher (Russian Partner)
-
- INFORMATION:
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- Please make checks or money orders payable to Heath C. Bair. Cash
- will be accepted. With cash there is a 2 week wait for your receipt.
- If you have any questions or comments please write to me at the company
- address.
-
- HISTORY:
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- RCS was started as a source for Russian programmers to sell their
- programs here in the United States. Because of the poor Russian
- economy registration is clearly asked for. This connection has been
- made possible my the use of the international network system. Thus,
- the name "The Russian Connection". (Which later was shortened to
- RusCon.)
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- Please register your program today!
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