Building a Better Mousetrap

Part 1 Interfacing with the mouse: how to communicate with the mouse; the video function; the ten necessary mouse functions; how to keep your mouse from turning into a rat; tracing the mouse and emulating cursor movement with the keyboard; determining the button status and limiting the range of movement; creating the event handler; using an event handler; handling menus; using the mouse as a crosshair; using the mouse in CAD-type operations (graphics only?); the optional mouse functions; setting the speed; Mickey and pixels; changing and managing the graphics mouse cursor; the mouse text cursor; combining the functions into one library. Part 2 Building your own mouse cursor and the elusive 800 x 600 16 colour mode: building your own mouse cursor; building the sprite drive; the new mouse function library and sprite cursor; the sprite cursor in the 800 x 600 colour mode; sprite user rules and features. Part 3 Interfacing with the mouse in Windows: the fundamental Windows program; Windows mouse button messages; changing the Windows mouse cursor; additional Windows mouse related topics. Appendices: the 50 mouse function calls; Windows mouse and cursor functions; Windows mouse messages.