Trevor Jones wrote:
>
> Nic,
> I have to agree. I'm not usually very enthused about hardware but this
> thing does it for me. How do you have your extra buttons mapped? I've used
> the little thumb button as 'escape' (a very important key in our apps). As
you use Notes, right????
:)
I don use the extra 2 buttons - I find I press them by accident too
much, so I switched them off. Might turn them on later when I get used
to the light touch of the buttons.
>Mind you, I've also had to install a nice animated hourglass cursor
> of a Ducati cornering for when Delphi decides to have a sleep. The blame
:) Not that bad for me, there again, I have 192meg of RAM and a PII 400.
> for that probably rests with me for leaving Code Insight turned on (it's a
> must have), or with Borland/Inprise for not killing the Code Insight thread
> (or whatever it is ) when I start typing again, but I guess its more fun to
> blame Microsoft.
I dunno - I use code insite, and I dont get any slowdowns at all.....?
> One more thing about the mouse - kids love it, and the glow makes it easier
> to find your machine in the dark (I use a blank-the-screen screen-saver and
> sometimes have inspiration at odd times of day(night))
:) dont we all. Used to light up my bedroom - until I took it to work :)
N
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