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Article #22161Mouse Scaling
From: Charles Edward Batey, Jr.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1987 18:28
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1987 18:28
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I need some help with a procedure I'm trying to write that will
change the mouse scaling on a Mac Plus/SE. What I want to do is be
able to alter the maximum "speed" that the mouse can move across the
screen -- like the control panel does except I need to override the
previous panel setting. I need a speed somewhere between the
"Tablet" setting in the control panel and the the slowest of the
other 4 settings.
I have tried using Parameter RAM, but after changing the mouse
scaling bit to 0 it didn't seem to have an effect. Why?
I also know some of the addresses of cursor related variables (i.e.
I know how to disconnect the cursor from the hardware, move the
cursor to any point, restrain the cursor, etc.) I have an address to
the "cursor threshhold", which seems to have something to do with the
mouse scaling but I can't figure out how it works.
While I'm here, another problem I'm having deals with resources.
I'm sure there's a really simple answer but I don't know what it is.
I can't seem to get the addresource procedure to work. I've even
read in a resource with getresource and the used that handle in the
addresource procedure and used a different ID number but it still
didn't make a new resource.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Note : I use the Turbo Pascal compiler.
Thanks,
Ted Batey
MUG Vice President
Carnegie-Mellon University
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!cb2o+ From: cb2o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Edward Batey, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mouse Scaling Message-ID: <YVlh2ry00Ugyo5g0-e@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 18:28:07 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 35