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ScrollPoint Mouse 2.0
Now Available in Norloff
ScrollPoint MouseDevice Driver for OS/2, version 2.0 is now available
on Pete Norloff's
BBS & Web Site. The file is MWOS210.EXE, 64K. Click here to jump Norloff>@@@
Installation Instructions
1. The SCROLLMS.EXE file that you received contains the following
5 scrolling mouse files in a self-extracting compressed format.
- MOUINST.EXE Executable that installs your scrolling mouse
- MOUSE.SYS ScrollPoint mouse device driver
- README.TXT This file that you are reading
- WPSTKMOU.DLL Mouse functional DLL
- WPSTKMRI.DLL Mouse informational DLL
To use these mouse driver files, you must expand the SCROLLMS.EXE file into
its 5 component files by (a.) opening an OS/2 window and (b.) typing SCROLLMS at
the OS/2 command prompt. Once the SCROLLMS.EXE file is expanded, please continue
with the installation instructions.
2. Open an OS/2 Window on your system.
3. Change your directory to the directory containing the scrolling mouse files.
As an example, type A: if you are installing the driver from a diskette.
4. At the OS/2 command prompt, type MOUINST. This command will load the new mouse.sys
device driver, add the associated DLL's and place the ScrollPoint Mouse Object on
your OS/2 desktop.
5. This completes the installation procedure. You must now REBOOT your system
to initialize the scrolling mouse driver.
Hardware Considerations
1. This ScrollPoint Mouse device driver does not support
attachment of your scrolling mouse through a serial port PS/2-style connector.
2. This driver only runs effectively in a uni-processor system. You may experience
reliability problems in a system running multiple processors.
3. If you are attaching your scrolling mouse to a notebook computer such as an
IBM ThinkPad that has a built-in mouse, you may have to disable the built-in mouse
to ensure your scrolling mouse stick/wheel scroller works properly.
Scrolling Mouse Operating Parameters
The ScrollPoint Mouse driver supports both stick-type (ie.,
IBM ScrollPoint) and wheel-type (ie., Logitech MouseMan+) scrolling mice. The physical
attributes of the scroller device in your scrolling mouse determines the operational
characteristics of the scrolling portion of the mouse. Other features, including
button functions, are the same as on a non-scrolling mouse.
Stick-Type Scrolling Mouse
A stick-type mouse will allow the cursor to move vertically
either line-by-line or page-by-page and horizontally either space-by-space or tab-by-tab,
depending on the amount of time the stick is held at its maximum-deflected position
for the chosen direction.
Typically, up or down stick-deflections of less than one second will cause the
cursor to move vertically on a line-by-line basis. When the stick is held deflected
up or down for more than one second, the cursor will change its vertical movement
from a line-by-line to a page-by-page motion.
Similarly, left or right stick-deflections of less than one second will cause the
cursor to move horizontally on a space-by-space basis. When the stick is held deflected
left or right for more than one second, the cursor will change its horizontal movement
from a space-by-space to a tab-by-tab motion.
Wheel-Type Scrolling Mouse
A wheel-type scrolling mouse has a wheel and either 3 or
4 buttons, with the 3rd or 4th button physically under the wheel. In a 3-button/wheel
mouse configuration, spinning the wheel up or down will move the cursor vertically
line-by-line. A 3-button/wheel configuration does not support horizontal scrolling.
A 4-button/wheel mouse configuration typically has the 3rd button on the side of
the mouse, under the thumb-position. Spinning the wheel up or down will move the
cursor vertically line-by-line. However, depressing the 3rd (thumb-position) button
while spinning the wheel changes the scrolling direction from vertical to horizontal,
and the cursor will move left or right in a space-by-space motion.
Scrolling Mouse Properties Page
A tabbed-page named Scroller has been added to the ScrollPoint
Mouse Properties that sets the parameters for the stick or wheel scroller functions
for your scrolling mouse.
The mouse Scroller Properties can be accessed by selecting the ScrollPoint mouse
icon on your desktop, depressing the right mouse button, selecting Properties from
the pop-up menu and then selecting the Scroller tab.
The Scroller scrolling-speed can be selected from the scolling speed pull-down
and can be set to slow, normal, fast or none. Normal is the suggested default.
Selecting "none" will disable the scroller.
Checking the "Use PageUp/PageDn" box will enable the line-by-line to
page-by-page vertical motion switching described above.
Checking the "Use Tab/Shift Tab" box will enable the space-by-space to
tab-by-tab horizontal motion switching described above.
For wheel-type scrolling mice, page-by-page vertical motion and tab-by-tab horizontal
motion cannot typically be achieved even if the boxes discussed above are checked,
because the wheel cannot be constantly-spun for more than one second.
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