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From: aleneis@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Tony Leneis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Message-ID: <922@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Apr 89 20:29:21 GMT
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In article <515@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>>)3. QMouse built into ROM.
>>What is it?
>
>If it's what I think it is, it is neither of the things you mentioned.
>Basically, all it does is test if a mouse button is held down or not.
>Sounds silly, but I put it to good use in my startup-sequence, preceded
>by:
>
>  echo "Hold down a mouse button to skip workbench"

QMouse is basically an enhanced DMouse written in assembly.  It doesn't
crash the Amiga like DMouse and it only takes up ~4K of disk space.  QMouse
has a lot of nice features, all selectable/deselectable upon startup.  You
can set the acceleration factor, the delay (in pixels) before the
acceleration factor kicks in, auto screen blanking, sun mouse, click to
front, click to back, window swapping, pointer blanker, clock & memory
tachometer, ADos hot-keys, A-ESC newcli hotkey (this is better than PopCLI's
because the cli's remember your old path's and assigns), and god knows what
else...  Also, you can run qmouse with a stack as small as 2000 bytes...

I think I'd rather have all of QMouse's functions built into the os rather
than put QMouse into the ROMs.  Then we would have a more efficient system.
(Of course I'd expect all the options to be setable from Preferences.)
While you're at it, why not install VScreen in 1.4 as well?

There are two things I'd like to see changed in QMouse - I don't think it
should blank the pointer when you shuffle screens around with the A-M key,
and I would prefer to be able to drag my clock around.

				- Tony Leneis