[openbeos] Re: Zoom and Resize
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:47:04 +0100 (MET)
Actually BeOS rules on this...
I bought a new mouse (PS/2 wireless with a wheel), and I hot-plugged it,
(yeah I know PS/2 is not meant for hot-plug, but you need to assume geekness :))
restarted input_server 2 or 3 times, and it just got my wheel ok. didn't have
to reboot. If you think you can loose control, you can do some thing like this:
sleep 60; /boot/beos/system/servers/input_server -q
this waits 1 minute, then restarts input_server. nice when changing kbds too :)
About windows, I happened to got the mouse working again once...
It was on 95, with a serial. I switched a DOS box full screen,
unplugged, plugged, sswitched back to window mode, and it was ok.
I assume the VxD reseted the COM port when switching out of fullscreen.
En réponse à Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Mac and BeOS are dead in the water without a mouse. Every tried to
> use either
> > > without a mouse? You can't.
>
> I liked that best about windows. I consider this to be a strength.
>
> > Well that has historical reasons - Windows was DOS until NT, and a
> modern GUI was a revolution for PC-DOS-users.
>
> That's the thing w/ win 95. I pulled the mouse out once to look at the
> port (I had a mac before then). Windows freaked out. I thought it was
> funny. I wouldn't have done it if I knew that windows would have been
> pissed. "Mouse is missing. Click ok to continue." :)
>
> I thought that they should have just carried on like the macos (but
> better
> w/ all keyboard bindings), then just re-enable the mouse when I plug
> it
> in. I think I (foolishly) rebooted. But I guess not so foolish if you
> consider the mythical, "average" user we are catering to who thinks
> that
> windows 98 is a word processor. :)
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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