Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Lamothe Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: I Can Remember When Mice Had Balls Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:19:26 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87pl3q3obl.fsf@posteo.de> References: <10qnnup$1o7gn$1@dont-email.me> <10rucqi$2r14r$1@dont-email.me> <1776865686-14325@newsgrouper.org> <20260422171817.ce42699d6c38447dc80bb692@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="11952e8f3a39f5f91fefbefed6638d44"; logging-data="2545471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/X/hcIU4bYdPJQ6ejAkocs/x5Sh1GV/S8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BUdbdpBFyYIWQEaC+Oor2uWf2no= sha1:vvjZHSgctSVbtyXn6aFN76mUk78= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:234733 "Kerr-Mudd, John" 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 https://jlamothe.net - PGP: 9CF2CE03EBF08E8C8B66C3660198463E3CF3FFD1 I � Unicode