1. Selecting 2- or 3- Button Mouse Mode
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If the mouse you purchased has three buttons and a mode switch (on the
bottom of the mouse), please follow these instructions.
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To configure the mouse as a Microsoft Mouse (2-button), move the switch to
the position marked Microsoft.
To configure the Mouse as a Mouse system Mouse (3-button), move the switch
to the position marked Mouse System.
Connect the mouse to the serial port (COM port), turn on the computer.
Now the hardware installation is completed.
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If the mouse you purchased has three buttons but does not have a mode
switch (on the bottom of the mouse), please follow these instructions.
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To configure the mouse as a Microsoft Mouse (2-button), Connect the mouse to
the serial port (COM port) then turn on your computer. The mouse will
automatically configure itself as a Microsoft Mouse.
To configure the mouse as a Mouse system Mouse (3-button), turn off your
computer first, connect the mouse to the serial port (COM port). Then press
any button of the mouse, turn on your computer and release the button after
the system boots up. The mouse will configure itself as a Mouse system Mouse.
An alternative to turning your computer off and on is to simply hold down
any button of the mouse, unplug the mouse from the serial port for a few
seconds, and then reconnect it.
Now the hardware installation is completed.
2. The Serial-PS/2 Mouse
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If the mouse you purchased has two buttons and comes with a mini-DIN-6 to
DB-9 adapter, please follow these instructions.
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To configure the serial-PS/2 mouse as a PS/2 mouse, turn off the computer
first, connect the mouse to the mouse port (Pointing Device Port, PDP). Then
turn on the computer. The mouse will automatically configure itself to emulate
a PS/2 mouse.
To configure the serial-PS/2 mouse as a serial mouse (2-button), please
connect the mini-DIN-6 to DB-9 adapter to the mouse connector on the end of
the mouse cable. Then plug into the serial port (COM port) of your computer.
The mouse will automatically configure itself to emulate the Microsoft serial
mouse.
3. Mouse driver Introduction
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A mouse driver is a small program that provides a standard interface
between a pointing device and an application program that uses the
pointing device for input. Once the mouse driver program is run, it
normally remains in the computer's memory until the machine is shut off.
Normally the operation of the driver will be transparent. You only have
to ensure that the driver is installed before you run applications that
use a mouse.
4. INSTALLING THE IMOUSE DRIVER
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Before you install the software, you should make the mouse is
hooked up to the computer. If you should encounter a problem, always
double check the hardware connection to see if it is correct.
IMOUSE comes in two different forms: the file IMOUSE.COM is a "resident
program" mouse driver, and the file IMOUSE.SYS is an "install-able MS-DOS
device driver". IMOUSE.COM is by far the easier mouse driver to
install. To install IMOUSE.COM, just type at the DOS prompt:
IMOUSE
You need to install IMOUSE before running an application which uses the
mouse. If you have a hard disk drive you just have to run the INSTALL.EXE
program to copy the mouse driver onto your hard disk. And INSTALL can add
the IMOUSE command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, so the driver is installed
automatically whenever you start using your computer.
The second way to install IMOUSE is by including IMOUSE.SYS as a device
driver in your CONFIG.SYS file. Add the line below to your CONFIG.SYS
file with a text editor:
DEVICE=C:\MOUSE\IMOUSE.SYS
This method will have a result that is identical to running IMOUSE.COM
each time that you start up your computer, with the following
exceptions: (1) you can not remove IMOUSE.COM from memory with the /off
command-line option; (2) IMOUSE.SYS cannot read configuration commands
from the MOUSE.INI configuration file; (3) IMOUSE.SYS cannot make use of
expanded memory, high memory, or upper memory blocks.
Usually you do not need to use any command line options. However, if
command-line options are needed, you must include them in your CONFIG.SYS
file.
For example:
DEVICE=IMOUSE.SYS /c2 to install on COM2
5. REMOVING THE IMOUSE DRIVER
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IMOUSE will remain in memory, ready for use by any applications program
until you either reboot or turn off your computer. Remember though that
you will have to re-install IMOUSE if you reboot an applications disk,
unless the IMOUSE.SYS file is already included in your CONFIG.SYS file
as a device driver, or IMOUSE.COM is included in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
You can disable and remove the IMOUSE driver by typing the command:
IMOUSE OFF
This command releases the hardware port to which the mouse is connected,
and if possible, the mouse driver will be removed from memory. If other
TSR programs have been loaded after IMOUSE.COM, however, IMOUSE will not
be released from memory. IMOUSE.SYS can not be removed from memory.
6. CONFIGURING THE MOUSE DRIVER
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Normally the IMOUSE driver automatically configures itself for the type
of mouse you have, you do not need to set any options. However, there
are a number of options which you can select from the command-line or by
an entry in a special file named MOUSE.INI
The mouse driver options control four areas of the drivers behavior:
1) the mouse hardware type and the port that the mouse is
connected to;
2) the cursor the driver displays on screen and what language it
uses for message;
3) the location in memory where the mouse driver will be loaded;
4) motion sensitivity settings.
7. Command-Line Switches
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These options can be issued after the driver is initially installed.
However, memory location and mouse type can not be changed without
removing the IMOUSE driver. Please refer to the respective sections for
details.
The command-line options can be combined together. For example, you can
use both /s and /c# together. The order of the command-line switches is
not significant.
Either upper or lower-case letters can be used in command-line options.
The place-holder # following some option letters represents an optional
number.
For list of the command-line options, at the DOS prompt type:
IMOUSE /?
It will call up an ON-LINE HELP as the following:
Command-line options available at any time:
/s# (5-100) Sensitivity (horizontal & vertical)
/p# (1,2,3,4) Ballistic profile
off Remove mouse driver from memory
/kp#s# (1,2,3) Primary, secondary button selection
/k[c] Disable [enable] click-lock
/l[d e f i Language [German Spanish French Italian
nl p s sf] Dutch Portuguese Swedish Finnish]
/n# (0-10) Cursor display delay
/ps[s m l] Pointer size (small, medium, large)
/pc[n r t] Pointer "color" (normal, reverse, transparent)
/IRQ# (2-5, 10-15) Specify serial port IRQ number
/? List command-line option
Command-line options available only when the driver is first installed:
/z PS/2 mouse
/c# (1,2,3,4) Serial mouse (COM 1, COM 2, etc.)
/mi Microsoft-compatible serial
/mo Mouse Systems-compatible serial
/e Install in Expanded Memory
/u Install in Upper Memory Block (UMB)
/hi Install in High Memory Area (HMA)
8. Mouse Type Options
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For a serial mouse, use the /c# command-line option to select which
serial ( RS-232 ) port the mouse is connected to. For example:
IMOUSE /c2 for COM2
Command-line options can also be used to force IMOUSE to install for the
type of serial mouse you have. For example:
IMOUSE /mi force Microsoft mode serial mouse to install
IMOUSE /mo force Mouse system mode serial mouse to install
Mouse System-compatible mice are ( in most cases ) not detectable by
software, it is necessary to specify the command-line switch "/mo" or
the "CompatibleWith" entry in the MOUSE.INI in order to install a Mouse
System-compatible mouse. It is also necessary to specify the COM port
uses, with the switch "/c#" or with the MOUSE.INI "MouseType" entry for
the desired COM port.
For a PS/2 mouse, you type:
IMOUSE /Z
If it is desired to force a specific type of mouse to install, whether
or not the device is found, add an exclamation point "!" to the end of
the appropriate command-line switch or MOUSE.INI CompatibleWith entry.
For example:
IMOUSE /c3 /mi! force the driver to install as
a Microsoft compatible mouse
on COM 3
IMOUSE will print a message confirming that it is installed. For
example, if you are using a serial mouse with COM 1 as the COM port,
after you type IMOUSE, the following message will appear:
Installed on COM 1
9. Display Options
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The Cursor Display Delay switch (/n#) controls how often the cursor is
redrawn while the mouse moves across the screen. reducing the redraw
rate may help you to follow cursor movement better on LCD displays. The
value can be in the range of 0 - 10. A larger number results in a less
frequent cursor display.
10. Foreign Languages
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If you want to change the language in which IMOUSE message appears, you
can use the command-line switch /l (letter). Besides English, which is
the default language, other languages included are: German, Spanish,
French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, and Swedish (see table on the last page)
For example, for German messages, type at the DOS prompt:
IMOUSE /ld
11. Memory Options
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Only IMOUSE.COM can be relocated . IMOUSE.SYS can not be relocated.
The mouse driver normally resides in low memory, which is where DOS
applications program are also loaded. If you need more space for your
applications, you can relocate most of the IMOUSE driver to either expanded
memory, high memory or upper memory block.
Use the /u command to load the mouse driver into upper memory ( between
640k - 1 MB ), or the /e command switch to load it into expanded memory,
or the /hi command to load it into high memory ( first 64k above 1 MB ).
12. Button Mapping
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The left button is the primary button by default. However, you can
redefine primary and secondary buttons to suit your own preferences by
using the command /kp#s#. In this command, p# is the primary button
number, s# is the secondary button value.
Button numbers for two-button mice:
Button Value
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left button 1
right button 2
Button numbers for three-button mice:
Button Value
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left button 1
middle button 2
right button 3
For instance, if you want to choose the right button as your primary
button, and the middle button as your secondary button, you should type :
IMOUSE /kp3s2
For a left handed user, it is convenient to have the primary button be
the right button on the mouse, and the secondary button be the left
button. The command to do this is:
IMOUSE /kp2s1 for two-button mice
IMOUSE /kp3s1 for three-button mice
13. Click lock
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The command /kc turns the third button on a three button mouse into a
click lock toggle. It works only with mice that have three buttons or
more. Click lock is especially helpful when you need to hold down the
primary button while moving the mouse.
Pressing the third will activate the lock on the primary button. Pressing
the button again releases the lock.
The /k command disables the click lock.
14. MOUSE.INI FILE
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The DOSPointer and WindowsPointer are newly added sections to the
MOUSE.INI. Its features are most helpful for LCD display where the
cursor movement is not as easy to follow. The DOSPointer controls
feature of the DOS pointer, while the WindowsPointer controls that of
the Windows pointer when you are running a DOS session in Windows.
You can change the pointer size from small, medium to large; and its
color can be set to normal, reverse or transparent. You need to try it
yourself to find out the size and color you like most.
The pointer will increase and reduce in size if in the MOUSE.INI file
you put growth value equal to true and the pointer size is set either to
medium or large. The DOS pointer in graphics mode will be shown against
a contrasting block. If you do not desire this feature, you only have
to set growth value to false. Please note, However, that the pointer
can only grow to the size you have defined in the MOUSE.INI. That is to
say, it will grow to large if set to large. It will not grow at all if
the pointer size is set to small.
There is a threshold of mouse movement speed you need to reach in order
to enable the pointer to "grow". It can be set from 1 to 100. Moving
the mouse at a speed faster than the threshold value will result in a
bigger/contrasted cursor. The higher the threshold value, the faster
you will have to move the mouse to see the pointer "grow". If you set
threshold value to 1, you will frequently see the enlarged/contrasted
pointer when moving the mouse. If your threshold is 100, however,
you will probably not see it unless you move the mouse very fast.
Delay, which also ranges from 1 to 100, determines the duration the
pointer "growth" lasts. The higher the delay value, the longer you see
the cursor "grow". If the delay time is set to 1, you will see a
temporarily enlarged/contrasted pointer before it returns to the
original stat. If you set the delay value to 100, however, the
enlargement/contrasted block will last for quite a while.
If you want a medium, reverse cursor with the growth pointer feature and
set both its delay and threshold at 2, you modify the settings in the
DOSPointer section to:
PointerSize = Medium
PointerColor = Reverse
Growth = True
Threshold = 2
Delay = 2
15. MOUSE DRIVER BALLISTICS
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IMOUSE supports fully Microsoft compatible ballistic acceleration. This
mouse driver comes with four built-in ballistic gain profiles:
Speed Value
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Slow: ballistic profile 1
Moderate: ballistic profile 1
Fast: ballistic profile 1
Unaccerated: ballistic profile 1
16. SUMMARY
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The following table lists all the command-line options and the
corresponding MOUSE.INI commands.
Settings Switches Default MOUSE.INI Values
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Mouse type Autosearch MouseType =
PS/2 /z PS/2
Serial Mouse /c#{1,2,3,4} Serial1, Serial2,...
Compatible with Autodetect CompatibleWith =
Microsoft Serial /mi Microsoft
Mouse System serial /mo Mousesystems
Button Selection
Primary /kp#s#{1,2,3,4} 1 PrimaryButton = #
Secondary /kp#s#{1,2,3,4} 2 or 3 SecondaryButton = #
Clicklock Disabled ClickLock =
Disable Clicklock /k Off
Enable Clicklock /kc On
Language Selection English Language =
English /l English
German /ld German
Spanish /le Spanish
French /lf French
Italian /li Italian
Dutch /lnl Dutch
Swedish /ls Swedish
Finnish /lsf Finnish
Memory LowMem Memory =
Low memory area - LowMem
Expanded memory /e EMM
Upper memory area /u UpperMem
High memory area /hi HiMem
Sensitivity
Horizontal 50 HorizontalSensitivity = #
Vertical 50 VerticalSensitivity = #
Horizontal & Vertical /s# {5-100} 50 -
Acceleration /p# {1,2,3,4} 2 ActiveAccerationProfile = #
IRQ number /irq# {2-5,10-15} Autodetect IRQnumber
Cursor Display Delay /n# {1-10} 0 CursorDisplayDelay = #
Pointer Size - Small PointerSize =
Small Small
Medium Midium
Large Large
Pointer Color - Normal PointerColor =
Normal Normal
Reverse Reverse
Transparent Transparent
Threshold - 1 Threshold = #
Delay - 1 Delay = #
Rotation Angle - 0 RotationAngle = #
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17. Control Panel
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In addition to the mouse driver, you can control your mouse with the control
panel program - CPANEL.EXE. The Control Panel lets you adjust your mouse
parameters dynamically. This means that you can modify the way your mouse
operates while you are running your application.
At the DOS prompt, type:
C:\MOUSE\CPANEL
Now the control panel program has been executed and resident in your memory.
Whenever you want to call it up, press SHIFT key and mouse primary button at
the same time. The control panel will show up. And you can modify the
sensitivity, acceleration and button definitions.
When you want to remove the control panel program from your memory, just
simply type:
C:\MOUSE\CPANEL OFF
18. Testing the Mouse
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1) Insert your mouse driver disk into drive A.
2) At the DOS prompt,type the following command:
A:\TEST
3) A test screen will appear. On the left side of the screen, you can see a
mouse shape box that indicates the mouse operation and two numbers show
you the coordinate of the cursor.
4) A small pointer (cursor), shaped like a diamond in a box, will appear in
the middle of the screen. The pointer's movement on the screen is
corresponding to the movement of the mouse across the desk top.
Move the mouse to see if the cursor moves correspondingly.
5) Now press each of the mouse buttons. The corresponding box should be darken
to indicate which mouse button you have pressed.
6) To exit this program, move the cursor to the "QUIT" box and click the left
button, or using the keyboard, press "Q".
19. Tutorial
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This function gives you a practice session like clicking, dragging sensitivity
and acceleration.
To run the tutorial, at the DOS prompt, type :
C:\MOUSE\TUTOR
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
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Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
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