Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Obstinate Mice! Message-ID: <1991Mar18.001755.3492@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 05:25:35 GMT References: <1991Mar14.103050.5074@cs.ruu.nl> <214@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State Universiy Computer Science Department Lines: 43 In article <214@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes: > > IT IS NOT A MOUSE `DOUBLER'. Those things are horrible - they just >make the mouse move two pixels rather than 1 on each pulse, so the mouse >jerks around the screen. > Just to differ, I rather like my mouse doubler. It does nothing in low res, doubles the x-axis movement in medium, and both x and y axis in high res. This means that you get the same amount of relative pointer movement as mouse movement in all resolutions. > The Mouse accelerator I use goes at normal speed when you move >the mouse around, but if you move it, say twice as fast, it steps up >the speed and travels (say) four times as fast. > Now, these proportional accelerators really annoy me. I constantly miss stuff when I start cooking with the mouse. I find that I have to try two or three times just to grab a file, or hit the trash can. Maybe I just move too fast for the damn things (the one on the NeXT boxes drives me nuts!). I used to think "more is better" when it comes to mice. I have now sobered a bit. I want something constant! Consistency breeds speed. As I have noted in previous posts, the "higher dpi == better mouse" scam is another basically stupid thing you can do with a mouse! Just IMHO. I didnt want all those pd and shareware authors to think that EVERYONE likes the proportional mouse accelerators (since many utilities are starting to include some sort of mouse acceleration). Oh, here is another one: you do something with a mouse (like click a button), and the damn pointer jumps to another part of the screen (supposedly so I do not have to move it myself). Arrrrrgh! -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "It's amazing how much growing up FSU Computer Science | resembles being too tired." Technical Support Group | email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Heinlein ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------