Double Byte -- Also, PMMAIL2

[John Thompson]

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:06:50 -0400 (EDT), Norm wrote:

>>>Freezes in PMMail/2 are typically caused by mouse enhancers using the
>>>middle button to simulate a double click - the answer is to avoid
>>>them, or to use X-IT which avoids the problem.
>>>
>>>The authors of other mouse enhancers disagree with SouthSoft on where
>>>the responsibility lies, and I see no solution.
>>
>>Yes, it is frustrating.  But since the problem only seems to occur with
>>PMMAIL, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the cause of the
>>problem is also with PMMAIL.

>     Not necessarily.  The problem is that both the 'enhancer' and
>PMMail are trying to trap the same RMB event.  This is bound to cause
>problems, but since most of these 'enhancers' allow you to add specific
>apps to their 'exclusion list' it's best to add PMMail (and any other
>app that requires exclusive access to a RMB event) to this list.-

Well, it's the "MIDDLE" mouse button that I have defined as a double-left
click that does it to PMMAIL here.  AFAIK, PMMAIL doesn't really use the
middle button for anything, so your explanation wouldn't apply.   And the
mddle mouse button works fine as a "double click" everywhere *EXCEPT* in
PMMAIL, where it causes CPU usage to jump to 100% and bogs down the whole
machine until/unless I can kill PMMAIL.

And the only program I know that has an "exclusion list" is X-it, which is
a nice program but 99% of the features I don't use so I didn't really want
to register it.  But I suppose I may have to...





John (john.thompson@ibm.net)