Mouse

The following settings affect the behavior of the mouse in a VDM.

MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS

Function:

This setting allows VDMs to run applications which maintain their own mouse pointers. Some DOS applications manage their own mouse positions and movements; in many cases, the application's values for mouse sensitivity and/or double speed threshold are different from those of Presentation Manager. As a result, a Presentation Manager mouse pointer may be outside the VDM window while the application pointer is somewhere in the window not receiving any mouse events. This means having two asynchronous mouse pointers on the screen.

The user forces the physical mouse driver to send its events directly to the virtual mouse driver without going through Presentation Manager. Only one mouse pointer appears when the particular VDM window has the focus.

OFF.

At any time.

However, this only marks the VDM window and does not actually activate the setting. In order to activate it, the user must press a mouse button within the VDM window. The Presentation Manager pointer disappears, leaving only the application pointer. In order to regain the Presentation Manager pointer, the user must press any of the hot-keys (Alt, Ctrl+Esc, Shift+Esc).

WordPerfect 5.1 has its own block-shaped mouse pointer, which will appear together with the system mouse pointer when the window has the focus. Turning MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS on allows the user to remove the system mouse pointer when in WordPerfect.