README95.TXT - 7 Jan 1998-KENSINGTON MOUSEWORKS SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 Software version 5.04 This document describes the latest version of the Kensington MouseWorks software for Microsoft Windows 95. (For notes on Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, please see the files README31.TXT and READMENT.TXT.) Table of Contents: ---------------- 1. Installation Instructions 2. Things to Watch Out For 3. Changes Since Last Release 4. Known Driver Problems 5. Known Control Panel Problems 6. Control Key Special Effects 7. Tips 8. How to Contact Kensington INSTALLATION ------------ WARNING! - Before starting the install process, close all active ======= running applications, and save your data. WARNING! - Please make sure that you are using a release version ======= of Windows 95 before installing the Kensington MouseWorks software. Pre-release "betas" are not supported. To install the Kensington MouseWorks software onto your Window 95 system: 1. Click on the Start Menu (button at bottom left of screen) or press CRTL-ESC on the keyboard to bring up the Start Menu. 2. Select "Run." 3. Type "A:\SETUP.EXE" into the editable text field. This assumes that your Kensington MouseWorks software installation diskette is in the A: drive. 4. Follow the prompts and directions on screen. Simply hitting return at each screen will select the defaults. This is appropriate for the vast majority of users. The Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel will be installed in the "Start" menu under "Programs." For complete details on What Goes Where please see the file called SETUP.TXT. THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR ----------------------- Do not change the "Button Configuration" value under the "Buttons" tab, or the "Pointer Speed" value under the "Motion" tab of the "Mouse" properties under the Windows 95 Control Panel. These will be set to appropriate values by the Kensington MouseWorks software when your system is started. If you are left handed, use the Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel to change the Right button to produce a Left button response and the Left Button to produce a Right button response. You must do so in that order, since at least one button must be defined as producing a Left button action at all times. Similarly, you should change the acceleration from the Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel and NOT from the Mouse Properties icon in the Windows 95 Control Panel. HISTORY OF CHANGES ================== Changes in MouseWorks 4.22 --------------- 1. Fixed a problem that could cause Windows 95 to restart instead of shutting down when "Shut Down" was selected from the Start menu. 2. Fixed a problem that could cause some 32-bit applications (notably MS-Works 4.0) to crash when our Snap-to-default feature was used. 3. Fixed a problem that could cause the driver to fail to find input devices that are connected to some third party serial cards that used non-standard address and IRQ combinations. Changes in MouseWorks 5.00 --------------- New Features: 1. Totally revamped the look of the Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel to make some of the advanced features of the software more accessible. 2. Added import and export of MouseWorks application sets. 3. Added cursor visibility support. Bug Fixes: 1. Solved problem with the AOL 2.5 client crashing. Installed work-around that removes part of our software hooks when AOL is running. There should be no noticeable effect in functionality. 2. Quicken crash bug has been fixed. 3. Fixed problem with intermittent system lockups when hitting DEL key fixed. 4. Fixed problem with Accessibility Options control panel. 5. When using Word 6.0 under Win95 accessing help system causes Word to crash. 6. On some machines with built in power management the system would sometimes freeze up when coming back from a power suspend mode. 7. When using Diamond InControl Tools to control video the snap to function was not working properly when the desktop size and screen size where not equal. 8. Fixed problems caused when our driver was being superseded by the standard serial mouse driver if the automatic hardware search was performed. When the driver loads it now sets up a "verifykey" field that is used to keep the automatic hardware search from identifying a serial mouse which is controlled by the Kensington driver. Changes in MouseWorks 5.02 --------------- New Features: 1. Auto-Scroll - Some new applications have added a feature called Auto-Scroll. We have added a shortcut that turns this feature on. Select Auto-Scroll from the shortcuts list to set up this feature. Then, when you press the button in compatible applications (MS Internet Explorer 3.0, Office 97 apps, and more coming soon) you will see the auto-scroll icon appear on the screen. As you move the mouse away from the icon, the document will begin to scroll in that direction. 2. Instant Menu - Allows you to get to the applications menu bar without moving the mouse. Just click! Saves time and effort. 3. Paste Text - Paste text lets you assign long text strings to a mouse button. Simply enter the text in the Paste Text dialog once, then, when you press the mouse button, the text is pasted into your application. Two things to rememeber: First, Paste Text only works in standard Windows applications that use CTRL-V as the paste shortcut. Second, Paste Text won't send commands. If you want to send commands, use the MouseWorks feature called "Keystrokes." Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed a problem that caused the machine to beep when CTRL+ALT+DEL was pressed. 2. Fixed a problem that could cause Kensington 4-button devices to fail to initialize correctly on certain Compaq portable computers, including Conturas, LTEs, Aeros, and Armadas. 3. Fixed a problem that could cause the mouse to stop working if an application attempted to open the serial port that the Kensington input device was using. 4. Fixed problems that occured when the MS Intellipoint 2.0 software has been installed on the system. Symptoms included buttons releasing, "lassos" failing to draw correctly, and strange redraw behavior when dragging items around on the screen. Changes in MouseWorks 5.03 ------------------ New Features: 1. Added scrolling features that allows the mouse to control scrollbars in applications. 2. Added EasyLaunch feature for one button launching of user defined applications. Changes in MouseWorks 5.04 ----------------- New Features: 1. The installation program will try to identify currently installed mouse software on the system and will offer to uninstall the software before installing MouseWorks 5.04. Please note that it may not successfully identify certain mouse software installed on the system. 2. Added new scrolling features. AutoScroll - Original Style as introduced in MouseWorks 5.02 AutoScroll - Office 97 style These scrolling features can be assigned to any of the buttons using MouseWorks control-panel/buttons tab. Note: Some applications are limited in how they can Autoscroll. A word-processing application will probably only be able to Auto scroll up and down, but a spreadsheet or mapping application might support both up and down and side to side scrolling, and may even support diagonal scrolling. 3. Added ApplicationMenu feature for switching to any of the running applications. BugFixes: --------- 1. After installing our driver, sometimes one would see a "standard PS/2 mouse port" entry with an yellow exclamation mark in the Device Manager. Because of this resource conflict systems when multiple mice where connected to the system often one of the mice would not work correctly. This issue has been addressed. 2. In some laptop computers, when the Kensington pointing device is on the PS/2 port, installing MouseWorks and restarting the computer, Kensington pointing device and the built-in pointing device will be frozen. This issue has been addressed. KNOWN DRIVER PROBLEMS --------------------- 1. There are known problems with Send Keys actions and their handling of Caps Lock: a) When processing a Send Keys action, no consideration is currently taken as to the state of the Caps Lock when the sequence of characters is sent to the system. If you have Caps Lock on prior to activating a Send Keys action, all keys in your sequence that do not specify Caps Lock will wind up as upper case, and all keys in your sequence that are defined as Caps Lock PLUS your key will actually wind up as lower case, the opposite of what they should be. b) In a Send Keys action, sending CapsLock+X (where X is some key) will toggle the caps lock state, instead of asserting caps lock for that key only. 2. When clicking the mouse and moving at the same time the clicks can sometimes be delayed such that the click does not occur at the appropriate location. This becomes more evident when the chording time-out value is increased. This problem can not be solved in the initial release of Windows 95 due to a bug in system services which does not allow for the absolute positioning of the mouse cursor. The best work around we can give at this time is to make sure the chord time-out value is set as low as possible (if chording is not used turn the time-out value all the way down - move slider to right until chord icon greys out). 3. When buttons are redefined to include modifiers as part of their response and they are pressed in conjunction with other buttons the modifiers are not held down correctly. For example when right button is redefined as sending shift+alt+right and the right is pressed and held down and the left is pressed and then released the modifiers associated with the right button press (alt+ctrl) are not held down with the right button. Pretty obscure I know. 4. On some Compaq machines with power management built in there have been some problems returning from monitor suspend modes. When the mouse is moved to cause the monitor to come back to life the system sometimes freezes. This is very intermittent and has only been observed using a Compaq Qvision 2000 driver/hardware combination running in 800 by 600 true color mode. This problem is fixed by updating the QVISION 2000+ driver to version 2.01 rev A available on the Compaq WWW site. 5. Instant Menu does not work in any of the Office97 applications as well as Internet Explorer 4.0. This is due to the new style of menu bar control introduced by Microsoft that makes reading the menu entries impossible. 6. Internet Explorer versions prior to 3.0 will not work correctly. 7. The following scrolling options do not work in the release version of Internet Explorer 4.0: Scroll Up Scroll Down Scroll When You Move The Mouse AutoScroll Also "Scroll When You Move (Ofc 97)" only scrolls the Internet Explorer window when the mouse is moved very fast. This is due to a bug in Internet Explorer 4.0 and it is fixed in Internet Explorer 4.01. KNOWN CONTROL PANEL PROBLEMS ---------------------------- None. HOLDING DOWN CTRL KEY SPECIAL EFFECTS ---------------------------------------- - In the MouseWorks Buttons tab, holding down CTRL while clicking on the response menus, you will see an extra response at the bottom of the menu. This is the custom action response. Information on this feature can be found in the MouseWorks help system. - When clicking on the options menu while holding down CTRL, an extra item, named compatibility, will show up at the bottom of the menu. - When the control key is held down while viewing the acceleration tab, and the fine acceleration checkbox checked, a table button will appear. The dialog that comes up in response to this button allows for very fine tweaking of the acceleration response curve. The meaning of the values presented is documented in MouseWorks help system. - In the shortcut dialog (displayed when a shortcut response is selected from the response menu) hold down CTRL to change the OK button to a Convert button. This will convert the selected shortcut action into its custom parts and it will be displayed as such from then on (i.e. the cancel shortcut will be displayed as a keystrokes response that sends an escape character. Note that the label for the response maintains the shortcut name). TIP: The Kensington MouseWorks software now allows you to send "Windows" keys from your mouse. To do this, use the "Shortcuts" button feature, and select either the "Windows Key" or the "Application Key" shortcut. HOW TO CONTACT KENSINGTON: ---------------------------- Kensington Technology Group 2855 Campus Drive San Mateo, CA 94403 USA 800.535.4242 (US and Canada) 650.572.2700 650.572.9675 (Fax) email: info@kensington.com (For general information) tech@kensington.com (For technical support robot) help@kensington.com (For technical support human) America Online: Kensington World Wide Web: http://www.kensington.com Copyright (C) 1998 Kensington Technology Group All Rights Reserved