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Article #766Re: Detecting number of mouse buttons (not INT 33,0)
From: Brian Onn - OpCom Staff
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:44
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:44
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In article <BxuBy3.J4D@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey) writes: > Does anyone know of a faster way than using INT 33,0 to detect > the number of buttons on a mouse? Every time that I invoke this function, > there is a substantial delay that I would rather not have... > There is really no portable way to do this, without using the INT 33 function. There may be another function that you can use besides 0, but I'm not familiar with the INT 33 interface, and my Mouse Programmers Ref. is buried under piles of other books right now. Since you only need to do this once, I suggest that you do it at a time in your proram while you are waiting for the user. For example, if you display a startup screen, do it while they are reading that, or if you ask them for some input, do it then. BTW, how long is the delay? (define substantial) Brian. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Brian Onn. Internet : Brian.Onn@Canada.Sun.Com Operation Commitment, Uucp : uunet!sun!suncan!brian Product Support Specialist. Voice : (416) 477-6745. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att-out!rutgers!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!sixgun.East.Sun.COM!newscan!newscan!brian From: brian@ganglion.Canada.Sun.Com (Brian Onn - OpCom Staff) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Detecting number of mouse buttons (not INT 33,0) Message-ID: <BRIAN.92Nov17104430@ganglion.Canada.Sun.Com> Date: 17 Nov 92 15:44:30 GMT References: <BxuBy3.J4D@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@newscan.canada.sun.com Organization: Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:20:26 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ganglion