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@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ the following additional features: Note *wheel support is broken when running under 386-enhanced mode Windows*, since it will not let PS/2 wheel data reach the DOS driver. -* Sending fake keys on wheel movements, i.e. faking wheel scroll support using arrow up/down keys. - You can scroll with the mouse wheel inside MS-DOS Edit! +* **Sending scroll keys on wheel movements**, + i.e. faking wheel scroll support on programs that don't support the CuteMouse API + by using arrow up/down keys. + You can now scroll with the mouse wheel inside MS-DOS Edit! This is not enabled by default, see `wheelkey` below. * The current version uses about 10KiB of memory (when logging is disabled), @@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ the following additional features: * A companion driver for Windows 3.x (_VBMOUSE.DRV_) that uses this driver (via int33h) instead of accessing the mouse directly, so that Windows 3.x gains some of the features of this driver - (like mouse integration in VirtualBox). + (like mouse integration in VirtualBox/VMware). There is some preliminary mouse wheel support based on the ideas from [vmwmouse](https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/vmwmouse/issues/5), but it only works under real-mode Windows. @@ -433,6 +435,15 @@ to obtain mouse button presses (and wheel movement) is still through the PS/2 co * Get the scroll wheel to work under 386-enhanced Windows, but this requires looking into VKD.386 (or a replacement of it). +* Investigate whether it makes sense to configure the PS/2 BIOS in "1 packet mode" + like the [Microsoft Mouse driver does](https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Archive/97883) + to aid scroll wheel compatibility. Currently we set it to either 3 packet + or 4 packet depending on whether we detect a wheel mouse or not. + +* The VirtualBox BIOS can crash on warm-boot (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Del) if the mouse + was in the middle of sending a packet. A VM reboot fixes it. + We probably need to hook Ctrl+Alt+Del and turn off the mouse. + * VMware shared folders support is interesting, but there is very little documentation that I can find, no sample code, and no open source implementation. Also, unlike VBMOUSE, where most of the code is common to all virtualizers, |