From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro Mouse POLL Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <52c1ms854l3ofjpt92qicn5cq8t7ouph7v@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Trace: +rUPLpko9mxuSDDqrpi00IwH+dyPQPxZdpzhdMmTzkuXBLgr27o4WgcHzZKfhHJNH4kf9fxvd8Wt!8toRHblVBe6ElOvKLrVfWVVrVX1vraAs+rLYYWZM6WwWEh6yi9R8IR9jOt02avxfKJahc2NA8gCR!cvyJ X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:29:08 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:29:08 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 03:33:29 -0400, Radical NetSurfer 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). -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/