[Coco] Re: WindInt questions

[Rodney V Hamilton]

In article #1382 on gmane, Boisy Pitre says...
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>All,
>
>In preparing for the NitrOS-9 3.2.0 release, we've run into several 
>issues with mouse behavior.  One involves the auto-follow feature of 
>the mouse.  I have looked in the OS-9 Level Two Technical Reference for 
>documentation on how to turn on the 'auto follow' mouse feature built 
>into WindInt/CC3IO and am at a loss.  Does anyone know of the properly 
>documented way that the auto follow mouse feature was enabled/disabled 
>in OS-9 Level Two and where this is documented?

Hi Boisy!
The auto-follow flag is documented in the Multi-Vue manual on page 10-56
as an arg of the _ss_mous() function in the CGFX C Graphics library.
It isn't mentioned at all in the OS-9 Technical Reference, so it may
be handled entirely within the CGFX library support code.  I also didn't
find any way to read back the follow flag value, so it may be write-only.

>I am also trying to establish proper behavior for the keyboard mouse 
>feature (invoked by CTRL-CLEAR, and then subsequently using the arrows 
>to move the mouse).  Can anyone tell me, using stock OS-9 Level Two, if 
>the keyboard mouse behavior is global (that is, its behavior carries 
>from one window to the next) or is it turned on/off on a per-window 
>basis?
>
>Boisy

A quick test with two windows shows it is controlled globally on a
stock OS9 LII system, whereas the versions from Sourceforge control
it on a per-window basis.

Rodney