I would recommend that we do not "assume" anything... otherwise smartass
people are going to write things to break it. Microsoft was known to add
things to Windows 3.x to break so OS/2 and Dr Dos wouldn't run. I can't
imagine M$ liking Plex86 ;-)
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: For Kevin Lawton!
> Why not do like VMWare does: capture and hide the real mouse pointer,
> and only show the one the guest OS renders on the screen? Then, deltas
> would be all you need. VMWare has a special toolbar thingy for Win95
> that detects when the emulated cursor hits the edge of the screen and
> gives up control of the real mouse at that point so that it almost looks
> like you just dragged the pointer right out of the window, but it also
> has a key sequence that frees the real mouse pointer in case you don't
> have the utility installed or enabled. The latter way wouldn't be so
> bad; click on the window anywhere, and your real pointer disappears and
> you pick up the other one from wherever you (or the OS) left it. Hit
> something like CTRL-ALT-ESC and the emulated pointer stops and your real
> pointer reappears.
>
> --Brad Martin
>
> X-Odus wrote:
> >
> > Does an OS always start the mouse in the center of the screen? Think it
would be
> > safe to assume this?
> >
>
>
