READMENT.TXT - 7 Jan 1998-KENSINGTON MOUSEWORKS SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT Software version 5.04 This document describes the latest version of the Kensington MouseWorks software for Microsoft Windows NT. (For notes on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, please see the files README31.TXT and README95.TXT.) Table of Contents: ---------------- 1. Installation Instructions 2. Things to Watch Out For 3. Known Installation Problems 4. Known Driver Problems 5. Known Control Panel Problems 6. Control Key Special Effects 7. How to Contact Kensington INSTALLATION ------------ WARNING! - Before starting the install process, close all active ======= running applications, and save your data. WARNING! - Microsoft recommends that you update your Emergency Repair ======= Disk (ERD) before installing any new device driver software. This will help you quickly recover from a conflict, should the need arise. For instructions on how to use the RDISK utility to create and update an ERD, see your Windows NT documentation. To install the Kensington MouseWorks software onto your Window NT system: 1. Log onto your Windows NT system with an account that has sufficient user rights to modify the registry. 2. Click on the Start Menu (button at bottom left of screen) or press CRTL-ESC on the keyboard to bring up the Start Menu. (If you are running Windows NT 3.51, select "Run" from the Program Manager's File menu.) 3. Select "Run." 4. Type "A:\SETUP.EXE" into the editable text field. This assumes that your Kensington MouseWorks software installation diskette is in the A: drive. 5. 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." Windows NT 3.51 users will have icons for the Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel installed in the "Main" program group. For complete details on What Goes Where please see the file called SETUP.TXT. THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR ----------------------- 1. When Kensington MouseWorks is installed, you should not use the built-in "Mouse" applet in the Windows NT control Panel. 2. 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 NT Control Panel. These will be set to appropriate values by the Kensington MouseWorks software when your system is started. 3. 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 NT Control Panel. 4. Using an ELO touchscreen device or a Wacom tablet, causes conflicts with the MouseWorks software. The button handling code that the two pieces of software use are not compatible. This can be fixed by putting the following entry in your registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\KMWNT\Skip Drivers key name - "firstport" key value - "Monmouse" for ELO touchscreen device key value - "PenClass" for Wacom tablet This will tell the MouseWorks software to leave this device alone. A software patch that will guide the user through and perform this registry modification is available on our website. HISTORY OF CHANGES ------------------ MouseWorks 5.02 - This is the first release of MouseWorks software for Windows NT platform. 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. Added new scrolling features. AutoScroll - Original Style as introduced in MWs5.02 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. 2. Added ApplicationMenu feature for switching to any of the running applications. 3. Under certain situations, when MouseWorks is installed and the pointing device is not physically attached to the system, NT-4.0 will crash with a blue screen due to "kernel mode exception". This has been fixed. 4. After using the cursor visibility featues to change the shape of the cursor, the I-beam cursor would not always display correctly (it was too thick). This has been fixed. 5. Under multiprocessing (SMP) machines running WinNT 4.0, the button clicks stopped working after about 10 minutes. This issue has been resolved. KNOWN INSTALLATION ISSUES UNDER MOUSEWORKS 5.04 ----------------------------------------------- 1. After correctly installing our driver, you may notice the name of our driver does not appear in the "General" tab of the Mouse Control Panel. This small bug causes no side effects, and you can safely ignore it. (Or you can click the "Change" button to change the name of the driver that appears here.) Note that you can tell if our driver is actually loaded by launching the MouseWorks Control Panel. It will not run if our driver is not loaded. 2. On some machines, when a serial mouse is added to a system that has a PS/2 mouse, or is added in place of a PS/2 mouse, the serial mouse will fail to work. If you run into this problem, you can recover as follows: 1. Turn off the machine. 2. Disconnect the PS/2 style mouse. 3. Restart and run the mouse control panel (using the keyboard to navigate) and use the "general" tab to change the mouse type to "standard serial mouse." 4. Restart From this point on both a PS/2 style and serial mouse will work just fine, no matter what is done via the mouse control panel. Even if you change back to the PS/2 style mouse, the serial mouse will still work. We are working with Microsoft to understand and fix this problem. It involves some odd registry behaviors, that, as of this moment, no-one has been able to adequately explain or understand. KNOWN DRIVER PROBLEMS IN MOUSEWORKS 5.04 ----------------------------------- 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. 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, huh?. 4. When restarting NT the MouseWorks driver causes the system to always do a full CHKDSK on the boot drive. It has so far been observed only for FAT partitions. Though this is a nuisance, it is totally harmless. The solution to this issue is being worked on. Installing beta versions Internet Explorer(IE) 4.0 made the CHKDSK problem go away. However, the final release of IE4.0 brought it up again. 5. Instant Menu does not work in any of the Office97 applications as well as in Internet Explorer 4.0. This is due to a new style of menu bar control created by Microsoft that makes reading the menu entries impossible. 6. 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 IN MOUSEWORKS 5.04 ---------------------------------------- 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). 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