toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin) (06/19/91)
I am posting this for a friend.
Please respond to me by mail if possible and I will post
the useful replies.
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thanks
Doug Toppin
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OVERSENSITIVE MOUSE
My mouse is so sensitive that it is almost unusable. When I
try to move it, it jumps across the screen - many times off the
screen.
I have a Packard Bell 286 system (IBM/AT compatible) using
MS/DOS 3.3, with 40 MB hard disk, both floppies, and a three
button "optical" mouse with an additional 3-position button, on
the side of the mouse, to vary its sensitivity. I am using the
Microsoft Mouse Driver. The mouse worked perfectly prior to my
using a routine named "MOUSE CONTROL (MOUSECTL)" which is part of
a package called "DOS POWER TOOLS - Techniques, Tricks, &
Utilities - 2nd Edition from PC Magazine (put together by Paul
Samelson).
The write-up states that there are "8" parameters that can be
set which change the sensitivity of the mouse. There are 8
default values but it does not say what mouse these 8 work for.
It also does not say what these parameters actually do. Each one
of the 8 parameters responds to all values between 0 and 32767 but
no assistance is provided in the write-up as to what any of these
values mean or what values should be used to approach the desired
sensitivity. The MOUSECTL write-up says that the range values
represent the number of mickeys at 1/200th-inch increments. My
Packard Bell mouse has a high 250 DPI resolution.
After I modified the mouse using MOUSECTL, I found that
whenever I tried to use my SMALLTALK package, the mouse was almost
unusable. There is no further assistance provided by the MOUSECTL
write-up to help anyone return the mouse to normal. I have tried
many sets of 8 parameters to try to get the mouse to return to
some useful condition but with no success. I would appreciate any
help since the mouse is currently almost un-usable.