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From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro Mouse POLL
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:29:08 GMT
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On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 03:33:29 -0400, Radical NetSurfer
<radsmail AT juno DOT com> wrote:

>All of you out there in DJGPP land, who are using ALLEGRO
>3.1.2. (perhaps the new WIP as well),

I use 3.9.32.

>if you are having SERIOUS problems with Mouse routines
>in Allegro PLEASE POST A MESSAGE, and contact me
>via Email.

Can't; Agent doesn't support Hotmail.

>I have discovered that sometimes my program runs fine, and
>other times, it HANGs!  And if NO mouse support is compiled
>in, the program does not appear to hang!
>so what gives?

Have you tried .../allegro/tests/test.exe?  If it works, it's your
problem.

>It's a logitech mouse, but even MS mouse's also produce the
>intermittant problem.  the mouse connections are SOLID as
>windows and OTHER dos programs would 100%

Logitech mice sometimes have a bug of the mouse moving at 1/8 speed in
graphics modes.

>If have no idea what is different from one running of my program to
>the next!

I smell uninitialized pointers.  Do you initialize all pointers to 0?
It'll help point out the bugs in your program.

>So I would appreciate hearing YOUR experiences with Allegro 3.1.2.
>and how its mouse* functions have served YOU.

3.9.32 has improved mouse routines (such as one that directly gets
mickeys from the driver).

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