What we're building is cross platform: win, linux, sgi.
Unfortunatly we have a deliverable in about a month and
are looking to solve this asap.
Personally, I'm not for castrating the male connector or molesting
the driver either. I maybe up for foundling the ini files
though...after all they're old enough.
Thanks again,
-mya
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>
> C'mon. Do the Right Thing (TM). Install linux and wine, and build your
> windose application that reads the raw mouse as a winelib
> program. Force Micro$oft to buy back the software licenses. :-)
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Marwan Ansari wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> > I know this is has a windows question embedded in it
> > but maybe you wouldnt mind taking a gander at it anyway.
> >
> > We are trying to get windows to not realize that
> > a device connected to it is a mouse so that we can
> > read the raw input. You see, if windows sees a mouse
> > on the serial port and the ps2 port then both control
> > the cursor. We want to see if we can prevent the serial
> > mouse from being detected.
> >
> > Since the mouse will return an "M" to the os
> > when the DTR is toggled... two ideas have been proposed..
> >
> > 1) clip the DTR
> > -- this just sounds so wrong to me. the DTR has
> > got to be used for other things right?
>
> _Something_ has got to provide power (not much, but some) for the
> electronics in the mouse. I know at least some mice are powered by the
> signal between DTR and ground (thus toggling DTR resets the mouse). The
> only control/status signals supplied by the DTE are DTR and RTS, and DTR
> is the logical one to use to power the electronics.
>
> > 2) re-pin (?) the dtr to that it has a -12V on it at
> > all times. --- I dont think this will work
> > either.
> >
> Just this once, I'm inclined to agree with you.
>
> > Do you guys have any ideas? This really isnt a problem
> > under linux but for windows its a realy pain. Do you guys
> > know of a way to prevent the os from using a mouse on the
> > serial port?
> >
> Use a sane OS. :-). Failing that, maybe - win 3.11 had a mouse.ini
> file. Maybe it could tell it to use the PS/2 mouse and not molest the
> serial one? Or instead of clipping DTR, clip mouse.drv. That might
> leave you with no mouse. It is _possible_ to work windose without a
> mouse, I think, but it is a long time I have not tormented myself with
> windose. Maybe rename it first to try it out. There might even be a
> separate driver for each mouse type, but I wouldn't know.
>
> I would expect that opening the serial port with OpenComm or CreateFile,
> depending on which windose, should disconnect it from the pointer, but I
> take no responsibility for the programming of the Devil.
> >
> > Many Many Thanks in advance,
> > -Marwan
> >
> Lawson
>
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>
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