drool@bisco.kodak.COM (Drool Rockworm) (02/04/91)
Anyone been successful using PenPal and qmouse at the same time? I find qmouse's ability to make the current screen the one where the mouse is at without tapping very handy, but qmouse in general seems to hose up PenPals Tool Box pointers. Even quitting qmouse leaves hazzards when it comes to printing. I must boot and NEVER run qmouse for Pen Pal to work for me. Any ideas out there? NOTE: Please IGNORE the return address on this message if it says nobody@kodak.com. Use one of the return addresses specified below. <: Drool :> |----------------------------------| | There's so many different worlds | | There's so many different suns | | And we have just one world, | | But we live in different ones. | | | | - Dire Straits | |----------------------------------| UUCP: kodak!bisco!retreat!drool ARPA: retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.com
griffin@frith.uucp (Danny Griffin) (02/08/91)
retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.COM (Drool Rockworm) writes: >without tapping very handy, but qmouse in general seems to hose up PenPals >Tool Box pointers. Even quitting qmouse leaves hazzards when it comes to >UUCP: kodak!bisco!retreat!drool >ARPA: retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.com Stop using qmouse -- use dmouse instead. qmouse will give you more grief than what you've said. See if your machine locks up/crashes less often after you eliminate it. -- Dan Griffin griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu
erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) (02/10/91)
>In article <9102050634.AA05467@bisco.kodak.COM> retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.COM (Drool Rockworm) writes: >Anyone been successful using PenPal and qmouse at the same time? I find >qmouse's ability to make the current screen the one where the mouse is at >without tapping very handy, but qmouse in general seems to hose up PenPals >Tool Box pointers. Even quitting qmouse leaves hazzards when it comes to >printing. I must boot and NEVER run qmouse for Pen Pal to work for me. >Any ideas out there? Yes ! I have had the same problem which prompted me to search for the ultimate mouse accelarator. The results of that search: Get Machiii ! It's extremely configurable *AND* you can specify the program to shut off such features as the sunmouse option (the one you are having trouble with in Pen-Pal) by configuring it for a certain window or screen name. It is also (as far as I know) the only mouse accelarator that you can shut down with a script command. I would have stuck with qmouse if it could have been disabled in a script file. All in all I have to give it an A+ for a mouse accelarator/hotkey utility A critique: MachIII A+ Qmouse B+ MachII B- Dmouse C+ EasyMouse C (Anything else is just a mouse :-) -- -------------------------------------------------//------------------------- (ames att sun)!pacbell! ----> sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk Multitasking, ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac! --/ // Never leave uunet!msac! -/ Erick Parsons \Sacramento Ca Home Without it --------------------------------------------\X/----------------------------- Please Don't Wait...
laughlin@fornax.UUCP (Bob Laughlin) (02/14/91)
In article <erk.1280@americ.UUCP> erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) writes: >>In article <9102050634.AA05467@bisco.kodak.COM> retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.COM (Drool Rockworm) writes: >>Anyone been successful using PenPal and qmouse at the same time? I find >> ..................................... >Yes ! I have had the same problem which prompted me to search for the >ultimate mouse accelarator. The results of that search: >Get Machiii ! It's extremely configurable *AND* you can specify the program > ............................................ I've also noted several incompatibilities with QMouse and other programs. These include: 1) does not work with DVideoIII. 2) QMouse's screenblanker will kill a file transfer with JRCOMM 0.94 if the screen is blanked during the transfer. 3) does not work with Bridge 6.0. (neither does DMouse). I recall reading a few years ago somebody looking at the assembler souce to QMouse and thinking it a bit unkosher in its register bashing. However I still use QMouse for one reason: It allows cycling through ALL screens with LeftAmiga-M. And with a program called MiddleMouseButton I can connect the MMB of my Boing mouse to LeftAmiga-M and cycle through all screens with a mouse press. Very handy. I tried DMouse recently and it did everything well, and probably in a kosher way, except the screen cycling only works under some conditions (no other windows on the screen etc.). QMouse does needs a QMouse QUIT option to use in script files. Anyway I've ditched DVideoIII (the Director is still much better) and no longer run QMouse's screenblanker. Does mach3 allow for some sort of screen cycling? and do you still need to send in a shareware fee for a usable version? Personally I prefer a utility like QMouse/DMouse etc. to run from a script file. A graphical interface is really not necessary. -- Bob Laughlin laughlin@cs.sfu.ca
blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner) (02/15/91)
[Qmouse vs Dmouse vs others deleted]
I recently started using ClockDJ instead of Dmouse, and I'm mostly happy
with it. It's easily configured from it's own menu, and it's clock
display is very small so a lot of WB space isn't wasted. You can shuffle
screens or windows with left-right or right-left combination of the
mouse buttons. This avoids Dmouse's need for having the pointer over the
background screen. There is one problem with this scheme that I just
found last night. Since the right-left combination shuffles screens, and
is also used for extended selection in menus by Workbench, ClockDJ winds
up disabling extended selection.
If toggling the screen vs. window mouse button sequence doesn't work,
I'll probably switch back to Dmouse.
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DoD #0046 My other motorcycle is a Quadracer. BIX: blaine_gjerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) (02/15/91)
In article <erk.1280@americ.UUCP> erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) writes: >Get Machiii ! It's extremely configurable *AND* you can specify the program >to shut off such features as the sunmouse option (the one you are having >trouble with in Pen-Pal) by configuring it for a certain window or screen >name. It is also (as far as I know) the only mouse accelarator that you can >shut down with a script command. I would have stuck with qmouse if it could >have been disabled in a script file. > >All in all I have to give it an A+ for a mouse accelarator/hotkey utility I can't agree more. Get MachIII. Get MachIII. Get MachIII. Get MachIII. I have used a couple of the mouse accelerators, but I needed to have different configurations for WP, and SID. I have been using MachII for almost 2 years now. I was looking at using Scriptit in combination with MachII, but it looks like MachIII will do a lot of what Scriptit does. -- Jerry Thompson | // checks ___________ | "I'm into S&M, I loved the peace and solitude | \\ // and | | | | Sarcasm and so much, I invited my friends. | \X/ balances /_\ | /_\ | Mass Sarcasm."
JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) (02/20/91)
In article <2114@fornax.UUCP>, laughlin@fornax.UUCP (Bob Laughlin) says: > >I recall reading a few years ago somebody looking at the assembler souce >to QMouse and thinking it a bit unkosher in its register bashing. > > However I still use QMouse for one reason: It allows cycling through >ALL screens with LeftAmiga-M. And with a program called MiddleMouseButton >I can connect the MMB of my Boing mouse to LeftAmiga-M and cycle through >all screens with a mouse press. Very handy. I tried DMouse recently >and it did everything well, and probably in a kosher way, except the >screen cycling only works under some conditions (no other windows on >the screen etc.). So use "Shuffle" off of Fish 229. I use DMouse and Shuffle in conjunction with one another, and I get an accelerator that is compatible with nearly everything, while Shuffle lets Left-Amiga-M "shuffle" through all the screens. Works for me. :-) Kurt -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- || Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || With. Without. And who'll || || 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. || deny it's what the fighting's || || Malvern, PA 19355-2214 || all about? - Pink Floyd || || jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu --------------------------------------|| || jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || -----------------------------------------------------------------------