From: Tudor Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Problems programming the mouse. Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:07:18 -0800 Organization: Communications Accesibles Montreal Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32E424D6.6BF7@cam.org> References: Reply-To: tudor AT cam DOT org NNTP-Posting-Host: dynappp-48.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Brien Donald C wrote: > > I'm trying to program the mouse under djgpp and it is giving me some > problems. I've programmed the mouse many times before in real mode > compilers and it works just fine. Particularly, I like to use the > relative mouse position function (0x0b with int 0x33). When I call this > interrupt in djgpp I get garbage numbers returned in cx and dx (nothing > close to the number of mickeys relative to last position.) I tried using > int86 and __dpmi_int, but I have had no luck. I haven't tried writing an > assembly version, but I suspect I would get the same problems. All other > mouse functions work perfectly. Any help on this problem (or an > alternative approach) would be greatly appreciated. I dunno,but ya have to load the mouse driver first. Sorry if ya allready knew this. You could take a look at the allegro sources;maybe it'll help. -- tudor 'at' cam 'dot' org yoda69 'at' hotmail 'dot' com http://www.cam.org/~tudor -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d-(--) s(-):(+) a? C+ UL>++++ P L>+++++ E- W++ N o K---(----) w--- O---- M-- V-? PS+++ PE Y PGP t+ 5-- X+++>++++ R tv b+ DI D+ G e->++ h>++ r- y>+++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------