[comp.sys.atari.st] Mouseprotect, etc. on Mega

iadt3tb@pyr.gatech.EDU (T. Terrell Banks ) (02/07/89)

   Help.  I want to put one of the programs in my auto folder that
 prevents the mouse selecting something in the top menu-bar unless
 I have the button pressed.   I have a Mega2 and I've tried a program
 called Mouse Protect and one called MacMenu (spelling and names are
 approximate), neither seems to have any effect.  Is this something 
 peculiar to the Mega roms?  Am I doing something wrong? 
 
            Terry Banks

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dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) (02/10/89)

in article <7222@pyr.gatech.EDU>, iadt3tb@pyr.gatech.EDU (T. Terrell Banks ) says:
>    Help.  I want to put one of the programs in my auto folder that
>  prevents the mouse selecting something in the top menu-bar unless
>  I have the button pressed.   I have a Mega2 and I've tried a program
>  called Mouse Protect and one called MacMenu (spelling and names are
>  approximate), neither seems to have any effect.  Is this something 
>  peculiar to the Mega roms?  Am I doing something wrong? 

	I'm assuming that "Mouse Protect" and "MacMenu" are really just
renamed copies (or derivatives) of "MouseTrap", the program Dave Small
and I wrote for STart a long time ago.  If so they will never work on a
Mega.
	The system variables that "MouseTrap" needed hadn't been
documented by Atari when we wrote the program (at the time almost
nothing had been officialy documented).  Since there wasn't an approved
method of locating the variables "MouseTrap" had to use fixed addresses. 
The variables moved in the Mega ROMs so the program doesn't work
anymore. 


				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM