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Re: I Can Remember When Mice Had Balls

From	Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: I Can Remember When Mice Had Balls
Date	2026-04-22 13:19 -0400
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"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

> TYVM! I never saw this back when W3.1 was "the thing".
> It works here under 32bit XP! 

I imagine that to work out the distance the physical mouse had moved, it
would need pretty low-level access to the input from the mouse.  You'd
have to ignore, for instance, the sensitivity settings, and count the
number of pulses registered by the axes and know exactly how much
physical movement they correspond to.

Even with the distance the cursor had travelled on the screen, in
addition to knowing the resolution of the screen, you'd also need to
know its physical dimensions.  The waters get extra muddy when dealing
with multi-screen setups, which admittedly probably wasn't really much
of a consideration in the Windows 3.1 era.

-- 
Regards,
Jonathan Lamothe
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