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MC-Windows problem - getting a process to release the mouse

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From: jbuck
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1986 19:45
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I've attempted to add rudimentary mouse support to Unipress Emacs for
the Masscomp (5600 with RTU 3.0), and was somewhat successful, except
for one problem.  I have Emacs call winbutsyn() to get escape
sequences from the mouse.  Other functions are called to change the
cursor shape (winloadcur16) and to get an AST if the size of the
window changes.  

But if the user suspends Emacs (stops the process), no other process
in the same window can do any MC-windows function that accesses the
mouse.  

What I want to do is to release the mouse before suspending Emacs, so
(for example) a second Emacs could be started with the first
suspended.  I can't figure out from the manuals how to do this.  Can
anyone help?  
-- 
- Joe Buck 	{ihnp4!pesnta,oliveb,csi}!epimass!jbuck
  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California

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Subject: MC-Windows problem - getting a process to release the mouse
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