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From: dcrowley@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (David Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Mouse in a windowed DOS program
Keywords: Mouse window DOS
Message-ID: <1434@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:26:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar31.185751.15696@uvm.edu> <1991Apr3.012535.17977@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
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In article <1991Apr3.012535.17977@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM 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.

	Even if he has loaded the driver before running the program - it
    will *NOT* work. If the dos-app is windowed then you will *NOT* be able
    to use a mouse with the app even if it supports it. This is because
    windows does not release control of the mouse when you move the pointer
    into the dos-app window. And anyhow if it did, how would windows know
    how to get hold of the mouse again? (detect when the mouse got to the
    edge of the dos-app? = not easy).
							David...
my $0.02 worth :)
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