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- wp41.doc - Sun Feb 23 13:36:32 1986 page 1
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- The wp41.arc file contains the following data sets:
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- WP41MOUS.DOC .... This file.
- WP41.DEF ........ A MicroSoft mouse menu source file for Word Perfect, version 4.1.
- WP41.MNU ........ The menu after WP41.DEF is run through the MAKEMENU program.
- WP41.BAT ........ A sample setup batch file for starting the Word Perfect program
- and using the mouse menus.
- SAVEENV.COM ..... A program that will save your current DOS environment variables
- along with the current drive and path.
- Introduction.
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- My eyesight not being what it once was, I was finding it hard to
- read the function key template that came with Word Perfect 4.1.
- Also, my fairly large left hand keeps obscuring the codes on key
- F10. Partly to help resolve this problem, and partly in answer to
- a friend who insisted that MicroSoft Word was the way to go because
- of its mouse interface; I dug into the mouse manual and coded some
- menus for Word Perfect.
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- Since you may not agree with my choice of locations for the menus,
- or the literals therein, I have supplied the source code to the
- menu for you to change as you see fit.
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- Using the menu.
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- Place the menu WP41.MNU in the same directory as the MENU.COM program
- that came with the MicroSoft Mouse. Before starting up Word Perfect
- execute the command:
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- MENU WP41
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- A sample batch file has been included to show one way to do this.
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- After Word Perfect starts, your mouse will work as follows:
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- o The mouse can control the cursor movement.
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- o The left mouse button will display a menu that can also be used
- as a quick help screen, since it is an image of the function key
- pad. In addition, you may move the inverse video cursor to any
- of the displayed keys and select one of the items.
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- Some of the keys cause additional menus to be displayed. For
- example, if you choose the Screen command (CTL F3), a menu
- with the six screen command options appears. You may choose one
- of these six options, or you may choose the CANCEL option. Note:
- on multi menu options, no keystrokes are sent to Word Perfect
- until the last menu has been displayed. Thus, selecting "Screen"
- and then selecting sub-option "Window" causes the key sequence
- (CTL F3) (1) to be sent to Word Perfect, as if it had been typed
- on the keyboard.
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- Due to the delay of key transmission, you may notice some of the
- word processor's menus appearing in the background. This should
- cause no problems, outside of the esthetic ones.
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- Certain commands require keyboard input, for example "RETRIEVE".
- Whenever a function key sequence reaches a point where keyboard
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- input would be required, the mouse menu politely bows out. There
- is no menu, for example, to handle the "PRINTER CONTROL" function.
- Thus if you click on "PRINTER" and then choose "Printer Control",
- the printer control menu will appear, and the mouse will be
- fairly useless, until the document is redisplayed.
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- o The right mouse button turns on the BLOCK command. This is useful
- for grabbing large blocks of text to move or copy.
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- o Pressing both mouse buttons displays the "PRINT" menu as if the
- Shift and F7 keys were pressed.
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- WP41.DEF
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- This is the source file for the pop-up menus. The most obvious
- modifications you may want to make are menu text, menu location and
- the movement sensitivity.
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- WP41.MNU
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- Since it takes a while for MAKEMENU to compile the menu, you may
- want to use DEBUG to modify the movement sensitivity values. Refer
- to your mouse manual under make menu to get the meanings of these
- values.
- To change them, just type the following:
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- DEBUG WP41.MNU
- -e10E xx
- -e110 xx
- -w
- -q
- At address 10E is the horizontal sensitivity setting, at address 110
- (hex) is the vertical sensitivity setting. Note: the defaults are
- 18 (hex) and 20 (hex) respectively.
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- SAVEENV.COM:
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- This is a program to save your current operating environment, for
- restoration later. SAVEENV creates a batch file in the root directory
- on drive C. This file, $OLDENV2.BAT, will switch drives back to the
- drive that was active when SAVEENV was executed, then it will switch
- to the directory that was active when SAVEENV was executed. Lastly
- it will set up the environment variables that were in effect when
- SAVEENV was executed.
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- NOTE: If you add new environment variables after SAVEENV has been
- run, you may not have enough space for SAVEENV to restore your
- original environment variables.
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- WP41.BAT
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- This sample batch file sets up the mouse menus for Word Perfect. It
- also illustrates how to use SAVEENV.COM.