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From: ulli@susan.sta.sub.org (Ulli Linzen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Borland mouse bug
Message-ID: <919@susan.sta.sub.org>
Date: 26 Jan 91 04:02:46 GMT
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mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus)) writes:

>Anyway, I seem to *remember* (I hope correctly) that one problem was the cursor
>disappearing after openning a DOS shell (I just verified this with C++ under
>DesqView) or running a compiled program (haven't verified this yet).  Evidently
>the mouse pointer is still there, just hidden.  One posed solution (by someone
>who, I believe, talked to Borland about this) is to upgrade to MS Mouse         
>compatible drivers to version 5.0.  I don't remember seeing it on more than 

In Fact, there is a problem with older mouse drivers. In the dokumentation
you would find a function call to freeze the mouse status, before a task
switches, and to restore it later. This allows applications running under
control of the IDE to use the mouse. Unforunally, most older mouse drivers
miss that function.
We figured out that the MS Mouse driver 6.24 or newer with the Microsoft mouse,
gmouse Vers. 9.02 for the Genius mouse would do the job; but we would be
happy to hear about any working combination of mouse, drivers and other
software like desqview or MS windows.

Hope that helped & thx in advance..

	Ulli Linzen
	Borland GmbH
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