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From: res@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (stockwell-1140galaxy-Bob Stockwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C and Microsoft Mouse problems
Summary: That was the problem.
Message-ID: <4634@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 18:28:39 GMT
References: <4630@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> <4570@xenna.Encore.COM>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <4570@xenna.Encore.COM>, corbin@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Steve Corbin) writes:
> In article <4630@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> res@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (stockwell-1140galaxy-Bob Stockwell) writes:
> >
> >My problem is that I can't keep up with the mouse motion.  
> >I want to plot some points on the screen, but I can't 
> >track the mouse fast enough to plot them.  I first tried 
> > ...
> I assume you can plot single points but are not getting a continous line as
> you move the mouse.
> ... 
> 
> Try drawing a line from the current x,y point to the new point reported
> by the mouse.  This will give the feel of a draw program.  If you move the
> mouse too fast then circles come out with too many straight lines but all
> drawing programs I've seen do the same thing.
> 
> Stephen Corbin	    UUCP:	{bu-cs,decvax,necntc,talcott}!encore!corbin
> 		    Internet:	corbin@multimax.ARPA

Bingo, that was the problem.

As an aside, I found two articles in Turbo Technix (#4 and #5),
that contain programs that use the Mouse.  I typed them in, and had exactly 
the problem I first described. 

Well, after changing them according to Stephen's
suggestion they now work great.  

Now, I have some basic tools to explore mouse/graphics programming.

Thanks everyone.

Bob Stockwell
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