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From: mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us (Patrick McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Using a mouse with Turbo C
Keywords: mouse genius Turbo C
Message-ID: <16344@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 23 Feb 90 02:17:59 GMT
References: <1264@ac.dal.ca>
Reply-To: mccarthy@well.UUCP (Patrick McCarthy)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1264@ac.dal.ca> botterry@ac.dal.ca writes:
>I am interested in using a mouse systems mouse (Genius Mouse with Mouse.com)
>for some i/o on my Turbo-C programmers.  Do I have to resort to Assembler in
>order to use the mouse or are there undocumented (or documented that I can't
>find documented) Turbo-C commands?

Depending on the level of mouse support you need, you may find it sufficient
to write C functions which communicate with the mouse driver via software
interrupts (i.e., by using the library function in86x()).  Howver, designing
a thorough interface takes a lot of work, so you may wish to buy a commercial
package.  I work for Blaise Computing in Berkeley, CA; we sell a package
called Turbo C TOOLS which lists for $149.  There are several others on the
market, so you may wish to call someone like Programmer's Connection,
which is a mail order house specializing in programming tools such as ours
and our competitor's.  They're located in Canton, OH, and have an 800
number you can get from information.

Pat McCarthy
mccarthy@well.uucp