On 31 Dec 2009, at 18:14, David Pilling wrote: > In message <E4A6D91B-188D-4B09-8474-8A7AC2E8DC7F@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall > <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> writes >> I thought I had narrowed this down to a problem with VMware Fusion 3. >> However, another user in Texas ran the OPW demo on an identical >> hardware/software setup and reports: > > It is interesting to hear how the program looks to someone not used to it. > >> mouse is as responsive as anything else. Actually I did close one of the >> floating windows as well but I can't seem to find it again > > At first I thought he meant the info palette and/or toolbox. > >> This prompts me to ask about the "floating windows". From memory, these are >> Colours and Styles. > > They're provided by applets. The way to bring them back is to go to the > applets menu, and click on the appropriate entries. > > To let Texas into a secret, settings for applets are stored on disc and > uninstalling the program does not get rid of them. From that point it sounds > like you're right and he does mean the colour and style windows. > > It would be interesting to know if opening these windows makes the problem > come back, but they really should have no bearing on the matter. > > You can either just not have the style/colour windows open, or you could make > the applets inactive which gets rid of their menu entries. Thanks for the clarification. Opening and closing colour/style palettes makes no discernible difference to mouse behaviour here. So, cause and effect remain a mystery. Anyway, not a big problem for me ... I've given up on Windows 7 for the time being, because I can't get it connect to the Internet via the MacBook Pro (no such problems with XP, however). ========================================== C.B. ========================================== To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling