Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!prism!romeo!cchapman From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Mouse in a windowed DOS program Keywords: Mouse window DOS Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 13:25:27 GMT References: <1991Mar31.185751.15696@uvm.edu> <1991Apr3.012535.17977@mrspoc.Transact.COM> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 30 In <1991Apr3.012535.17977@mrspoc.Transact.COM> itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) writes: >opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes: >>I have a DOS program which uses the text version of mouse and I wish to run >>in it in a window (I run multiple copies and compare data). The only problem >>is that the mouse will not work in it. >> >>Is there any way to get this to work or am I dead in the water? >Rather than running the program directly (or from a PIF), run a batch >script that first loads the mouse driver and then invokes the proram. >Remember that you probably haven't loaded the mouse driver before loading >Windows since Windows does it itself. >-- This is not correct. You cannot give mouse control to a DOS program running in a Window. The mouse is used for marking text for copying/pasting when a DOS program is running in a Window. There is no way around this. Chuck -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu