Numbers & Co. Rt. 1, Box 59A Oroville, WA 98844 (509) 476-2216 Copyright (C) 1990 WHISKERS SHAREWARE NOTICE: Version 2.6a Whiskers is being distributed in the shareware market, you are free to make copies to pass along to others who might find Whiskers useful. All files (Invoice.txt, Whiskers.dll, Whiskers.exe, Whiskers.txt, WhiskPro .wri and W-header.txt) must be distributed together. W-header.txt is a short descriptive for text file. Please use this text for the description when uploading Whiskers 2.6a to other BBS's. If you find that you like Whiskers and find it useful in your work, you are expected to pay a registration fee of $15.00 per copy. An invoice named INVOICE.TXT is included for your convenience. Checks, Mastercard and Visa are accepted for payment. Open the Invoice.txt file with Note- pad, select File menu, Page Setup command and set all margins to 0. Then select File menu, Print command to print the invoice. When your registration fee is received, a registration number and a paid in full invoice will be sent to you. When you receive your registration number it is very important that you enter your registration number ex- actly as it appears on your invoice. Technical support and site licenses are also available, please call 509-476-2216 for more information. The file named WhiskPro.wri that is included with this copy of Whiskers is a description of the Whiskers(tm) Professional commercial software product. Please read this file to learn about the additional features and flexibility that Whiskers(tm) Professional has to offer. WHISKERS INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: To install Whiskers, copy all of the files to the directory you want Whiskers to be in. Then use the File Manager or Program Manager to start Whiskers, using the Whiskers.exe file. Whiskers.exe uses another file (included with Whiskers) named Whiskers.dll. The Whiskers.dll is a Dynamic Linked Library. Be sure to keep the Whiskers.exe and Whiskers.dll in the same directory. If you have an older version of Whiskers that used a file named Rodent.exe, please delete the Rodent.exe file. Whiskers no longer needs it. To run Whiskers, double click on its icon in the Program Manager or the Whiskers.exe file in the File Manager. Another Whiskers icon will appear at the botton of your screen. At this point the Whiskers icon will have bars showing and Whiskers is running. The bars indicate that the mouse button clicks are being captured and processed as the default settings. To view or change the default settings, see the "Programming the Mouse Buttons" section below. Whiskers requires a minimum of 18K of memory to run. When using either hideit option the minimum memory required to run Whiskers is 7K. LOAD LINE: You can put Whiskers on the load line of the WIN.INI file. Making a Whiskers entry on the load line will run Whiskers when Windows is first started. It is recommended that you make the Whiskers entry on the LOAD line and not the run line. HIDEIT FEATURE: Whiskers has a "Hide Whiskers" checkbox in the buttons dialog box and a "Hide Whiskers" command on the menu. These options allows you to hide the Whiskers icon. This reduces screen clutter. The "Hide Whiskers" command on the menu will hide the Whiskers icon im- mediately, but will only stay in affect for the present Windows session. The "Hide Whiskers" checkbox in the buttons dialog box requires that a Whiskers entry is on the LOAD line of the WIN.INI file. This option is permanent until the checkbox is unselected. With this option when Windows is started, the Whiskers icon will be hidden automatically. When using the "Hide Whiskers" menu command, if you find that you need to change a button setting or edit the Exclusion List, start Whiskers by double clicking the icon in the Program Manager and the Whiskers icon will appear at the bottom of the screen. Any editing can now be done. When using the "Hide Whiskers" checkbox option, if you find that you need to change a button setting or edit the Exclusion List, you must delete the line in the WIN.INI file in the [Whiskers] section that reads hideit=on, then start Whiskers again by double clicking the icon in the Program Manager and the Whiskers icon will appear at the bottom of the screen. Any editing can now be done. When either of the "Hide Whiskers" options are selected the memory required to run Whiskers drops to approximately 7K. PROGRAMMING THE MOUSE BUTTONS: 2 and 3 Button Mice Click once on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of your screen and the sy- stem menu will pop up. Select the Buttons... command and a dialog box titled "Whisker's Mouse College" will appear. The Right and Middle button key combinations have been programmed with default key values. You may change any of these defaults that you wish. For example, to program the Right button to be the DELETE key, turn the checkbox on, then click on the down arrow of the listbox that is in the "no shifts" row and in the Right button column. Scroll the listbox until you find the DELETE entry and then select it. Now press the OK button. To program the Shift+Right button combination, follow the same steps as above, but make your selection in the listbox in the "shift" row and right button column. Follow these steps for programming each of the combina- tions. Repeat these steps for programming the Middle button on a three (3) button mouse. PASS SHIFT STATES: By default the Pass Shift States checkboxes are unselected. An example of passing or not passing the Shift States is as follows: The Shift+Right button combination has the assignment of PASTE from the listbox and the Shift State checkbox is unselected. When the Shift key and the right mouse button are pressed together, the Paste command will be executed. Now with the Shift State checkbox selected, and the Shift+ Right button combination has the assignment of the Insert key, when the Shift key and the right mouse button are pressed together, the Paste command will be executed also. When the Pass Shift States is selected, the Shift key message is actually passed on the the active application to be processed. When the Pass Shift States is unselected, the Shift key is used to give Whiskers another key combination, the Shift message IS NOT passed to the active application. SHIFT LEFT BUTTON & LEFT DOUBLE CLICK If you want to use either the Shift Left Button or the Shift Left Double Click selections, it is recommended that you program these selections on the shift line of either button and select the pass Shift States checkbox. Otherwise erratic results may occur depending on the applications that you are working with. LOGITECH MICE: If you have a Logitech Bus Mouse you will need to call Logitech Tech Support at 415-795-8100 to get a new lmouse.drv file. This new lmouse.drv file will support the middle button of your mouse. MIDDLE BUTTON SIMULATION: To turn on the Middle button simulation, click on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of the screen and then select the buttons command. In the buttons dialog box select the Middle Button Simulation checkbox and then press the OK button. This checkbox will enable the middle button simulation. Whiskers can simulate a Middle button on a two (2) button mouse. To do the middle button simulation press and hold down the right mouse button and then QUICKLY click the left mouse button. The left button will ac- tivate whatever key you have assigned to the "no shift middle button". If you find that the click rate is too fast or too slow for you, the click rate can be changed in the Control Panel, Mouse section, Double Click Rate. To do the other middle button key combinations, press and hold down the right button and any of the shift keys and then click the left button. When you let up on the right button, the mouse will revert back to its normal state. To program the simulated Middle button, just follow the steps for programming the middle button of a three (3) button mouse. The Shift Left click sequence may be assigned to the right or middle but- ton, but in some applications it will not work. For example, in Excel and Notepad the Shift Left click assignment to the right or middle button will produce the approperiate extended selection. However, in the File Manager, which uses Shift Left click for extended file selection, Whiskers will not work. This problem of Whiskers not working with some applications is caused by the way those applications were written and there is no way for Whiskers to get around this. EXCLUSION LIST: Click once on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of your screen and the system menu will pop up. Select Exclude... and a dialog box will appear. Follow the instruction in the dialog box for excluding certain programs from Whiskers attention. You can also turn Whiskers ON and OFF manually by double clicking on the Whiskers icon at the bottom of the screen. Or Clicking once on the icon at the bottom of the screen and then selecting Whiskers ON or OFF from the system menu. TO EXCEL USERS: A Rodent.exe has been marketed separately in the past as an Excel add in. If you have purchased the Rodent for Excel, just delete the Rodent.exe file and any macros that you may be using. Whiskers is a complete re- placement for the Rodent.