From: gonzaled@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (LGV/MC)
Subject: Re: How can I use the mouse in NON-Windows applications under MS-WINDOWS ?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian) writes:

>wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar) writes:



>>   Hey,

>>   could somebody tell me, how it is possible to work with the mouse
>>   in a NON-Windows application, which runs in an window. We use
>>   MS-WINDOWS 3.1 and have CLIPPER applications. Exists there any
>>   routines or something else ? Please mail me your informations.

>>   Thanks for your efforts,

>>     Oliver
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>Very simple.  You have to have the MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS loaded in DOS
>before you run Windows.  Note that you don't need to have these files loaded
>to use the mouse in Windows.

One addition to this... I don't know if it applies to everybody.  For my
(Microsoft 400dpi) mouse to work with windowed DOS apps, I had to use the
driver that came with Windows (Version 8.20).  8.1 didn't allow me to do
it for some reason.

