Msg: Re: Mouse wheel is now supported in vDos-lfn

I've long had both CU/CD and LU/LD present in my keyboard table, but I don't recall ever using -- or even trying to use -- the mouse wheel in native XyWrite, with either Xy-3 or Xy4. The mouse was basically not in the picture. In fact, I thought Xy was only very minimally mouse aware, if at all. (But, I suppose it *had to be*, at least somewhat: remember the "A La Carte Menus" option, that I think relatively few users ever bothered with ?) So I will be approaching this without relevant experience or expectations. If VDOS can now expand these options in useful ways, that will be welcome.

While I'm at it, I could stand some reminder or summation, because I think there were put forward some *other* Pros & Cons on choosing the '2016' package vs. the '2015' one -- and vice versa. Functional differences perhaps right up through the recent Color Table discussions. I would benefit from a list of what is gained or lost, in making that choice. Or maybe we don't even have to choose, by virtue of some parallel installations setup ?

Jordan

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: Mouse wheel is now supported in vDos-lfn

Hello Wengier,

These features are indeed great and do work.

One question: when I roll up and down in the word processor the cursor
jumps to the left margin. When I use up and down arrows, I stay in the
same column. I have "lu" and "ld" in my Xy keyboard table. The Xy
keyboard functions "cu" and "cd" should mimick what the mouse wheel
does. I have never used those but tried them now with "func ##" from the
command line. It seems that "cu" does not work in NB3, it moves the
cursor downwards just like "cd". I have found a bug in NB3! We need a
patch for the EXE! Can this be traced down by comparing other Xy
editions? Do they work?

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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14.8.2016, 3:28, Wengier W (Redacted sender wengierwu for DMARC) kirjoitti:
> The latest build of vDos-lfn (build 2016.08.13) now features mouse wheel
> support. Now the mouse wheel movement will be automatically converted
> into up & down arrows to work with DOS applications inside vDos-lfn.
> This of course includes XyWrite and other word processors like WordStar
> and WordPerfect. Also, if you use the mouse wheel while holding the Ctrl
> key, then the size of the vDos-lfn window will be automatically
> increased or decreased. Hope these features will be useful.