Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Travis Siegel
I believe the problem with the scroll wheel is that it doesn't generate an interrupt, so if the mouse driver doesn't specifically look for the scrool wheel, there's no way for the computer or operating system to know that it is being used.  I had a similar problem under windows several years

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread kargol92
There is a feature in DOSBox-X that "emulates" a scroll wheel. Scrolling the wheel does the same thing as moving the keyboard arrows up and down. Also, there is a program called TSR - MOUSKEYS, written by Bret Johnson. MOUSKEYS emulates any mouse movement (up, down, left, right). In some

[Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Björn Morell
Hi, The progs I found which can use scroll wheel 4Dos; Help,Select and History Syschk MPXplay I have tried wheelk butit does not make any difference in any program I tried, I really would love for it to work in File Wizard. Have any of you found other programs or ways there scroll mouse

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon power-up even the most sophisticated mouse emulates a basic two button affair, until software jumps through a series of hoops to elevate its capabilities by sending a series of magic sequences of commands. The problem is that most

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Alain Mouette
CuteMouse doesn't have any of these "elevating" resources. But whatever the mouse sends is passed over to the application. In DOS it is up to Appication to uses it Alain Em 21/01/2022 12:59, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user escreveu: Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Bret Johnson
> CuteMouse doesn't have any of these "elevating" resources. But > whatever the mouse sends is passed over to the application. In DOS > it is up to Appication to uses it. Not quite. CTMOUSE does support a mouse wheel, but it has a "special" way of accessing it in the Mouse Driver API (INT 33h).

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O OR keeping your source code secure

2022-01-21 Thread tom ehlert
> Also, > through a series of unfortunate hard-drive problems and corruptions, > I managed to lose the source code for MOUSKEYS. So, in order to > "upgrade" MOUSKEYS to support wheels, I would need to start by > recreating it from scratch again (basically, I would need to > reverse-engineer my

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Björn Morell
The  /O switch makes cutmouse detect scroll wheel. Den 2022-01-21 kl. 16:59, skrev Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user: Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon power-up even the most sophisticated mouse emulates a basic two button affair, until software jumps through a series of

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Ladislav Lacina
The text editor Blocek has experimental support for mouse wheel when using with CuteMouse /O___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread manuel azaña
Ok the editor eding modificstion of cutemouse Enviado desde mi Samsung Mobile de Claro Get Outlook para Android From: Ladislav Lacina Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 5:30:11 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O OR keeping your source code secure

2022-01-21 Thread Bret Johnson
> a) in germany we have a saying "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid" which > translates roughly to "no backup, no pity" > b) one of the advantages of open source software is that you have > automatically backups on a bazillion of computers. It happened a long time ago, and I actually did have backups

[Freedos-user] Speaking at FOSDEM'22 about DOS spreadsheets

2022-01-21 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! I wanted to share that I'm giving a conference talk at FOSDEM'22 in a few weeks, on February 5 at 17:00 (Brussels time). My topic is "A Brief History of Spreadsheets" and is a look back at how spreadsheets have evolved. Have you ever wondered why spreadsheets look and act that way?