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From: umholtm0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Heston Holtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Programming a Mouse with Turbo C/C++
Summary: How to programm the mouse using Turbo C/C++?
Keywords: Mouse, Programming, Turbo C/C++
Message-ID: <1991May3.000656.1462@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 3 May 91 00:06:56 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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  As a new programmer to ibm/ms-dos/intel based machines, I was hoping to be able to program the mouse for complete mouse based applications as easily as it wasfor the Amiga or Macintosh using C or C++.  This task, however, is not the case
after going through my Turbo C/C++ docs..
 
  So, could someone PLEASE (at least) point me in the correct direction with
regards to this problem???  Any indication as to how many different ways there
are programming the mouse, and which way is the best/worst or quickest to go
about would be helpfull.
 
  I am an experienced C programmer as well as MC680x0 assembly programmer so
being techinal is not a problem.  I also have a basic understanding of 
how ms-dos functions at the interupt/bios level for i/o, BUT i would prefer to
avoid i80x86 ASSEMBLY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

	Heston Holtmann.