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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Mouse vectors etc.
Keywords: mouse vector
Message-ID: <3250@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:35:40 GMT
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Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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ge@wn3.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:

>My question is: at what time in the OS startup is the mouse vector changed? 
>I've got a driver that works when started from the desktop, but
>not when started from the AUTO folder. Which is weird, as I only call
>the routine pointed to by the mouse packet field of the result of
>Kbdvbase().

Must be when the AES come up. The ROM jumps over exec_os, then does
some Dgetpath and Dsetpath calls to get its view on paths right,
and at some time opens a physical workstation which is when the
mouse vectors are probably being initialized. You will have to
implement some technique for checking whether your program starts
in the AUTO folder, make it resident and sit there and wait for the
AES to come up. I'm not sure that there is any decent and documented
method for doing things like this. Moving your routines to a DA
might solve your problems.


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