Pete - any news on the mouse problem?

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Hi Pete,

Any news on the jumping mouse problem?

Cheers

Andrew

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Andrew <NOastuart@mira.netspam> wrote:

Hi Pete,

Any news on the jumping mouse problem?

Yes. There seem to be several different reasons the mouse can go whacky,
and there will need to be several solutions implemented to deal with
each possible cause.

I can’t even guarantee that any of them will be done in time for the
first patch.

Mice are evil. I wear surgical gloves whenever I’m working on them now.
We should not call them mice… we should call them `rats’ to properly
convey the proper sense of filth.

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Mine nipped me the other day with its razor sharp rodent fangs when I
squeezed it too hard whilst using a paint program. Suffice to say I have
now written some code for trapping bad mouse events.

Andrew

<pete@qnx.com> wrote in message news:8snhqi$70v$2@nntp.qnx.com…

Andrew <> NOastuart@mira.netspam> > wrote:
Hi Pete,

Any news on the jumping mouse problem?

Yes. There seem to be several different reasons the mouse can go whacky,
and there will need to be several solutions implemented to deal with
each possible cause.

I can’t even guarantee that any of them will be done in time for the
first patch.

Mice are evil. I wear surgical gloves whenever I’m working on them now.
We should not call them mice… we should call them `rats’ to properly
convey the proper sense of filth.

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Hehe, a GUI mouse control panel and a universal Cirrus Logic GD54xx
video driver are two things QNX RTP could really use. :slight_smile: The GD54xx
series must be neck and neck with crappy old Trident chips on older
computers. :slight_smile:

pete@qnx.com wrote:

Andrew <> NOastuart@mira.netspam> > wrote:
Hi Pete,

Any news on the jumping mouse problem?

Yes. There seem to be several different reasons the mouse can go whacky,
and there will need to be several solutions implemented to deal with
each possible cause.

I can’t even guarantee that any of them will be done in time for the
first patch.

Mice are evil. I wear surgical gloves whenever I’m working on them now.
We should not call them mice… we should call them `rats’ to properly
convey the proper sense of filth.

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Gregg E. <gregg1@valint.net> wrote:

Hehe, a GUI mouse control panel and a universal Cirrus Logic GD54xx
video driver are two things QNX RTP could really use. > :slight_smile: > The GD54xx
series must be neck and neck with crappy old Trident chips on older
computers. > :slight_smile:

I think I lost count of the number of CL video chips at around 40.

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Mice are evil. I wear surgical gloves whenever I’m working on them now.
We should not call them mice… we should call them `rats’ to properly
convey the proper sense of filth.

I agree mice are evil. I use a Kensington Expert Mouse (Trackball) whenever
possible. The programable buttons are really cool and they did a good job
of writing the drivers. Of course they don’t have any drivers except for
Winsucks
and Mac so I’m stuck with the evil little critters when I use QNXx. (QNX4.25
or QNXRTP)

Later…

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