dudek@utai.UUCP (03/02/87)
Well, people have been complaining about how annoying it is to
have to re-boot when the mouse freezes. I know I've found it a
pain. The enclosed FKEY (function key) resource calls the ROM
to re-init the SCC and hence "defrost" the mouse.
It calls a routine I found in the 128K ROM, so it almost certainly
will NOT work on the 64K ROM machines. I found the routine using
Macsbug and didn't work too hard at figuring it out, so although
I've used it repeatedly without trouble, I'm not making any promises.
WARNING: mouse freeze is characteristic of wild memory references by a
program. The faulty program may have done other nasty things too,
so be prepared for sudden system crashes even if the mouse does
de-frost.
BTW, I wanted to post it to mod.mac.binaries but could not
get through to the moderator.
Greg Dudek
Dept. of Computer Science (vision group) University of Toronto
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