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- Subject: Re: using a mouse in a dos program whie it is a window
- Message-ID: <BuAL5w.B7I@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:46:39 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.181426.137158@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Sep7.220048.12029@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep7.220048.12029@samba.oit.unc.edu> areid@med.unc.edu (Alfred Reid) writes:
- >CKT0@LEHIGH.EDU writes...
- >>I have been unable to find info on or figue out how to use my mouse in a dos
- >>appclation while it is running as a window. I am using windows 3.1 and I have
- >>hurd this is possible. Dose anyone know how? Help would be apprecated.
- >
- >The DOS window must be full-screen *before* starting the application.
- >Don't know if this is generally the case but that's how it works with the
- >three mouse-aware DOS apps that I use under Windows 3.1 (WP 5.1,
- >DrawPerfect 1.1, and Lotus 123 2.2). Your mileage may vary.
- >
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- >Alfred Reid areid@med.unc.edu
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
- >Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7595. (919) 966-3711 [voice]; (919) 966-6125 [FAX]
- >
- >
-
- Not exactly true. To get the mouse to work in a Window you need two things
- 1. A mouse driver loaded outside of Windows. There should be one on the
- Windows disk as mouse.sy_ or mouse.co_. Needs to be expanded.
- 2. A Win 3.1 compliant video driver. If you're using standard VGA then
- that would work. If you are using svga on ET4000, Trident, etc. cards then
- you will need to locate the 3.1 drivers on the various FTP sites. Although
- 3.0 drivers will work, things like mouse in a Window and scalable fonts in
- a dos windows will not.
-
- Laurence Chiu
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