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/************************************************************************
5/20/87
'MouseOff' will cause the mouse pointer to disappear after about 10
seconds of inactivity. It will reappear again upon movememt of the
mouse.
Usage: Run MouseOff
'MouseOFF' is public domain. Please feel free to pass it anywhere
you want.
This program was originally written by :
Denny Jenkins
5226 Greensedge Way
Columbus, Ohio 43220
CompuServe ID: 70003,2374
I didn't like the executable size (appearantly Lettuce compile) and that
there was no way to turn the program off short of rebooting in the original
version of this program. This has led to a major hack on my part. I
have included the original version of this program in this archive under
the name moff.orig
MouseOff now checks for ^C so now supports the 'Break' command. Ie. the
program may be exited by the command "break <task_num>" where task_num
is the process number of MouseOff as returned by the "Status" command.
As a small advertisement for the Aztec C system, this code, even before
I really started hacking on it, was much smaller and better behaved after
being compiled with the Aztec compiler. The Lattice executable timing
did not seem to work well, and the pointer got lost on me permanently
a time or two while playing (not saving) in Preferences. This has not
happened with the Aztec executable. Recompiling with Aztec also cut the
executable size from over 9k to under 800 bytes !!
A word of warning is still to the wise concerning Preferences and this
program :
BE SURE THAT IF YOU CHANGE PREFERENCES WITH MOUSEOFF RUNNING THAT YOU
HAVE THE POINTER VISIBLE WHEN YOU SAVE ELSE IT MAY VERY WELL WIND UP
WITH A TRANSPARANT (READ INVISIBLE) INTUITION POINTER SAVED TO YOUR
DEVS:SYSTEM-CONFIGURATION FILE.
As the original author might not recognize this file any more, comments
questions, whatever may also be sent to me :
Tom Smythe
RealTime Associates
254 N.E. 42nd
Seattle, Wa.
98105
(206)-547-7292
(206)-774-4735 (ALink BBS)
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