Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Mouse blanking Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 22:35:39 GMT References: <9107@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 10 May 91 09:41:28 GMT In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > Yes, I know. Too bad. There is no other way to do it. You can always > turn the feature off (without effecting other features). Call it a > design decision if you will, but the majority of people who use DMouse > these days use it for the mouse blanking. The mouse acceleration also > generally used on 1.3 systems, but not as much under 2.0. > > -Matt > Why not check to see if you are running under 2.0 and work as a commodity? Because the commodity system doesn't provide any way to turn the mouse off. The commodity system provides programmers and users with an easier way of controlling things on the input food chain, and dealing with events from same. It doesn't provide applications specific utilities like turning off the mouse, or blanking the screen, or window shuffling. It's up to the application to do that. My blanker was upgraded to commodity status under 2.0. It still uses the same technic to turn off the mouse. It's nice to be able to disable it without just killing the thing, though.