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

Hi Wengier,

You can easily find much better level of authority for such answers here than myself, but that behavior of CU | CD (the normal or default Up | Down functionality) sounds very familiar to me. I'm sure that must be why I added the LU | LD functions to my keyboard file very long ago. (I most likely had that mapped to ALT-UpArrow | ALT-DownArrow, because that would have seemed more logical to me, and I always favored the logical association for mnemonic purposes.)

To me, this was part and parcel of the XyWrite experience: the extent of custom tailoring available to the user basically let us "have it all", instead of just accepting default limitations, so why not take advantage of that ? Others took this much further with loading up SaveGet routines, XPL programming -- which reached its ultimate _expression_ in the U2 library -- and some more elaborate things that can be done in the keyboard file. But for us "mid-level" users, it all began with some series of basic keyboard assignment mods, for personal preference. (For whatever reasons, I did not ever get much beyond that point, finding it sufficient. Most anything else one might need is probably already thought of and covered in U2.)

Jordan

From: Wengier W
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxx"
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Mouse wheel is now supported in vDos-lfn

Hi Kari,

Since the mouse wheel movements are simply converted to up / down arrows, I don't think they should do anything different from the UP / DOWN keys, at least in theory. I believe the cursor jumps to the left margin only if that line happens to be empty. On the other hand, I never used Xy keyboard functions "cu" and "cd" before so I am not really familiar with them. Maybe someone else can help with this?

Wengier

On Sunday, August 14, 2016 5:49 AM, Kari Eveli wrote:

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.