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In <4gtfia$ibm@speering.alleg.edu>, groland@doan10.alleg.edu (George Roland) writes:
>Have any new mouse/joystick sensing features been built into SCALA MM400?
>
>I am interested specifically in the following:
>a.) Can SCALA MM400 sense the x,y location of the mouse pointer and give  
>the user the ability to trigger events based on where the pointer is?   

No.

>(I'm *not* talking here about clicking in a box, I'm talking about sensing  
>just from moving the mouse pointer over an area of the screen.)
>b.) If the above is possible, is it also possible, then, to tell whether  
>the mouse pointer is moving or still, say, by comparing the last x,y to  
>the current x,y and "sensing" thereby whether the pointer has moved since  
>the mouse port was last polled?

Its possible an external CLI program can be made or to provide coordinates,
which can be sent to the ARexx port.  You will need to do some ARexx
programming to utilize the data for the application.  It won't be easy, but
theoretically, can be done.

>c.) Does SCALA have the ability to send and receive data over the parallel  
>and serial ports?

Not directly.  Again, another program that accepts ARexx commands can do
the "pinging" to the port.  The Scala script can be used to "talk" to
the program.

>d.) Does it have the ability to sense voltages on the joystick pins and  
>trigger events by joystick input?

Again, not directly.  ARexx or any ARexx addressable program might do
the job.



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John Chang
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