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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Windows and Events Questions -- Follow Up
Keywords: mouse buttons
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.082634.12301@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 Apr 91 08:26:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.072944.1120@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr26.182518.24869@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <3016@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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healy@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mike Healy) writes:

>Regarding Claus Brod's suggestion for getting one or the
>other mouse button with event_mbutton or event_multi,
>thanks, it helped me out.


Please keep in mind that the method I suggested is inofficial. It is
being inspected at Atari and might be legalized (should be, if you
ask me 8-) one day, but use it with caution until they give us green
light.

>I am having a problem that hopefully someone else has
>When I execute my program from within the Laser shell, the
>event_multi call works fine. When I execute my program
>from the desktop, the event_multi call will not receive
>mouse button events. It's as if something is intercepting
>them. My event_multi call is checking for keyboard and mouse
>button input and the keyboard input works. Using event_mbutton
>instead of event_multi has no effect.

Maybe you could provide us with a short extract from your evnt_multi
loop and init code. I don't think it has anything to do with AUTO
folder programs or other interdependencies.

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