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- * Name - MouseStep *
- * Purpose - Mouse sensitivity editor *
- * Author - © Alexander Buckley, 1991 *
- * Version - 2.00 (23-Mar-91) *
-
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-
- Overview
- --------
-
- MouseStep is a little multi-tasking program which allows you to change the
- mouse sensitivity from the Desktop, rather than having to go into BASIC and
- type MOUSE STEP xxx, which I find rather irritating!
-
-
- Operation
- ---------
-
- All you have to do is click over the icon on the icon bar with the <MENU>
- mouse button, and select the Sensitivity submenu. Then just type in your
- required sensitivity and press <RETURN>.
-
- NOTE - The setting you type in is not saved to CMOS RAM, and therefore is not
- retained when you do a <CTRL-BREAK> or <RESET> (it reverts to the
- setting in CMOS RAM).
-
-
- Technical details
- -----------------
-
- MouseStep works by taking the number from the writable submenu, operating
- on it to get the actual value, and passing that to OS_Word as follows -
-
- mouse%?0 = 2 (the OS_Word parameter)
- mouse%?1 = the specified value
- mouse%?2 = the specified value
-
- Both the BASIC "MOUSE STEP" command and this OS call (BASIC does call
- this, after all) allow you to specify two parameters - one for the x factor
- and one for the y factor. So you could say MOUSE STEP 5,1, which would mean
- that the ratio of x movement to y movement would be 5:1. It is achieved
- simply by giving different parameters for the OS_Word call and different
- numbers for the MOUSE STEP command. I decided against having this feature,
- because most of the time, you will want the x movement to be the same as the
- y movement, and it would confuse first-time users. Sorry.
-
- MouseStep v.2 is a compiled C program, unlike v.1, which was a MakeApp-ed
- BASIC program.
-
-
- Thanks
- ------
-
- Big thanks go to - Craig Brown, for working out how to de-MakeApp a
- program which had previously been MakeApp-ed.
-
- Tim Simmons, for noticing that clicking on Select over
- the icon on the icon bar crashed the program! This,
- however, was in a pre-release version, but thanks all
- the same, Tim!
-
-
- Alexander Buckley
- 23 March 1991
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