From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Scroll Wheels in Dos.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:56:44 -0500
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I got that driver as well a few weeks ago...
It seems to use BIOS int 15h functions for PS/2 mouse.

But what if I don't want to use BIOS (let's say in my PMode OS project)? :))
Then my existing driver somehow works but it's not reliable and I still have
no idea why.

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"florianx" <florianx AT drdos DOT org> wrote in message
news:3a997ba7$0$22464 AT SSP1NO25 DOT highway DOT telekom DOT at...
> Look here:
>
> FreeDOS mouse driver CTMOUSE at http://www.vein.hu/~nagyd/
>
> "Added support for serial Microsoft Whell/Intellimouse protocol, wheel
> interpreted as third button "
>
> bye, florianx
>
> Alexei A. Frounze schrieb in Nachricht
> <97abj0$oa9bi$1 AT ID-57378 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de>...
> >"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
> >news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1010225083249 DOT 10629D-100000 AT is...
> >>
> >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, R. Glashans wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've been trying to find some source to read the scroll wheel of a
> >standard
> >> > ms-mouse.
> >>
> >> You mean, by using Int 33h functions with the standard mouse drivers?
> >> AFAIK, this is impossible: Microsoft quite deliberately didn't add that
> >> functionality to the Int 33h API.
> >>
> >> If someone knows how to get at the wheel events via Int 33h, please
> >> speak up.
> >
> >By introducing a new function on int 33h and making a new driver for DOS
> >(and windows so that wheel rotation reflects to v86 tasks :).
> >I bet there are not many people willing to do this (especially, to change
> >something in windows on behalf of DOS programs :)
> >
> >Good Luck
> >--
> >Alexei A. Frounze
> >alexfru [AT] chat [DOT] ru
> >http://alexfru.chat.ru
> >http://members.xoom.com/alexfru/
> >http://welcome.to/pmode/
> >
> >
> >
>
>