From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: mouse freezes in win95
Date: 23 Feb 1998 08:11:16 GMT
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 (chakster AT geocities DOT com) writes:
> I used the install_mouse() function, but after I exitted my program, the
> mouse no longer functioned in win95.  It was stuck where it had last
> been and just wouldn't move.  Why would this happen?  (I have a
> Microsoft Intellimouse).

Did your program exit normally? (Allegro_exit should thus be called.)

If it crashed, did you see "Shutting down Allegro" at the top of the crash
traceback?

If not, or if it locked fully and you killed the DOS box in
Windows, then the mouse interrupt vector was left mangled.

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