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From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: How to revive mouse in a DOS window?
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.065829.4337@dgbt.doc.ca>
Date: 13 Jun 91 06:58:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.210514.862@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
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I'm very fully experienced with the mouse loss problem you state since
I spent a small fortune on Compuserve trying to solve it. The fact is,
as soon as ANY program, utility, whatever, uses a mouse in a window,
DV CANNOT recapture the mouse after you stop using that program,
utility, whatever. So, you must NOT use the mouse in a window unless
you can afford to completely relinquish DV mouse control (which is,
for example, OK if that window is thence totally dedicated to the
mouse-using program). If your program or utility will let you make it
desist from mouse, use that switch. Otherwise, there is a very
effective workaround = a utility, called, appropriately, nomouse,
which you run BEFORE the mouse grabbing program or utility. You can
stick this in a batch file to run automatically for selected programs
or utilities. To get it, contact the programmer ALBERT ARIAIL,
73510.2562@compuserve.com from internet, or at that address directly
on compuserve. It works like a charm, preventing the offending
program, utility, from capturing mouse and leaving DV in control
thereof.

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