Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsm!nsw
From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Handshake w/ dMouse problems :^(
Message-ID: <2163@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 19:14:32 GMT
References: <20198@louie.udel.EDU> <15361@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
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In article <15361@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes:
>In article <20198@louie.udel.EDU> KENNEDAM%WWPS@dupont.com (Tony Kennedy) writes:
>% 	I'm runnin Handshake 2.8a, DMouse 1.1 with the lineart dmouse-handler,
>% and ConMan. WB 1.2.
>% 	HAs anybody seen anything like this, also? Any suggestions an what to
>% do. I don't like to disable dmouse, I'd like to screen to blank on some of
>% those long downloads. 
>
>I've noticed this as well. I have an easier method of getting it to
>guru, though: Start dmouse. Run handshake. Wait some time. When the
>screen unblanks by touching the mouse, gomf will be waiting for me. 

I had similar  problems with a program I was writing interacting poorly with
Dmouse 1.10.  My problem was the same as Edwin's:  Dmouse would blank the
screen, then I would move the mouse and Guru city.  Well, my program was
doing some copper list hanky panky and peaking into IntuitionBase, and I
was eventually able to fix the problem through extremely anal use
of the LockIBase() call.  Looking at the Dmouse source never revealed to me
exactly why my fix worked.

Oh, I should mention that to the best of my knowledge, my program was doing
nothing that should have caused a Guru.  I only "fixed" it because I felt
that Dmouse compatibility was important.  Turns out, though, that the new
version is "better" than the old one in other ways...

Still a little puzzled why it worked,

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