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From: koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Mouse movement
Message-ID: <5259@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 88 04:51:29 GMT
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In article <5258@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David Ashley) writes:
>there is a USHORT PointerTicks which is the sensitivity of the pointer.
>Its offset is pf_PointerTicks at hex $6C.
>Just play around with it, see what happens. It is not enough to just change
>the file; you will have to reboot to get the system to use the prefs.

I played around with it myself, and I have some bad news and some good news.

The range of values for pc_PointerTicks is 4 for slowest, 1 for fastests.
I didn't try to make it 0, it would probably hang or bomb or something.

So, my previous posting is of no use. To make ammends, I have modified my
screen blanker program to instead install a handler in the input.device
chain that just looks for mouse move events, and when one comes along, it
will double the ie_x and ie_y events, speeding the mouse up by a factor of
two.

Here is the code:
(It is impossible to disable this without re-booting the machine, but the
handler itself is under 50 bytes.)

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