L.D wrote:
>AND ...
>just for your information ... the version of CTMouse I was referring to
>was 1.6, by the *orginal* author -- NOT by Bernie.
In case anyone is interested it seems like the original authour (Nagy
Daniels) doesn't have time for chaning Cute Mouse anymore. I'll try and
coordinate my work with another person (Arcaky Belousov) - getting it to
work with Ricsis mouse would be a good thing for instance.
BTW: Anyone trying to see the post on the freedos site (that Florian
reported about earlier) about CTMouse 1.7 is out of luck - I asked Jim Hall
to remove it until I've atleast tried to fix the bugs and perhaps add some
features (simulating a third mouse button for instance on two button mice
(not that I could get the third button to actually do anything in Arachne
when I tried yesterday)).
> And Bernie doesn't
>need you to stick up for him, really! He's a big boy and can fight any
>battles he chooses to. He doesn't need you wading into the fray to
>"rescue" him and simply muddy the waters.
Let me quote the mails ahead before I explain my thoughts on the matter.
L.D:
>It wouldn't be nice to recommend *any* software that is that unflexible.
Ricsi:
>Bernie put much enegry into this.
>And IMHO that's great !!
>
>The Documentation is not lying ... but there is a bug in the code, which
>prevents port autodetection.
>Bernie is already searching for it ... but he has very few time.
IMO the documentation *is* lying if the program isn't able to autodetect
where the mouse is (on com1/2). I can't get even 1.2 to work so I wonder if
it ever worked.
I don't think that Ricsi was "sticking up for me" - if someone here says
that "Arachne can't do [insert feature of choice]!" and someone else says
"Michael is working on it as fast as he can." (if that's true of course -
Flash isn't one of them for instance) then I don't think that second person
is sticking up for Michael, only explaining things so Michael can keep on
working on the feature (or atleast do something else). IMHO Ricsi was
stating that he thought it was good that I've worked on CTMouse (not that
anyone has said the opposite).
And actually I'm not activly searching for it yet... but I do have two
ideas - hardware reseting the mouse should report an error if no mouse is
at that com-port or remove Mouse System mode (this can't report an error).
I wonder what would happen to a modem (or printer) if I try to do the first
idea.
