unbent@uncecs.edu (Jay F. Rosenberg) (09/20/90)
Promulgate the good news and let there be rejoicing in the colonies!
With the kind help of various netlanders, my last (current) Windows 3
problem has been solved. The mouse-in-a-DOS-app secret is, indeed, to load
the DOS app from a BAT file which loads the mouse driver first -- the cute
extra trick being that AUTOEXEC.BAT must *not* load the mouse driver, else
the later calls to MOUSE.COM think there's nothing to do (and Windows 3
masks the *global* mouse driver!). Given all that, however, Win3 behaves as
it *should*, relinquishing the mouse to a DOS-app running full screen, but
reasserting control of it when the app is switched into a window (for
inter-application cutting and pasting). How 'bout that!
My thanks to all who took the time and trouble to respond to my
various cries for help during the past several weeks. -- Jay Rosenberg
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