PRODUCT  :  Brief                                 NUMBER  :  1289
  VERSION  :  3.1
       OS  :  DOS
     DATE  :  October 25, 1993                         PAGE  :  1/2

    TITLE  :  Slowing down the scrollbar speed in Brief.





       Slowing down the scrollbar speed in Brief
       =========================================


       On some high speed computers, the mouse scrolling, and
  scrollbar speed is too fast to be usable.  The following macro
  modification will fix this problem.

       Change into the BRIEF\MACROS directory, and load the
  MOUSE.CB file into Brief.  On line 72, locate the following piece
  of code, starting with the definition of the _mouse_action macro:

       replacement _mouse_action(int event, int modifier,
                                 int parm2, int parm3)
            {
            switch (event)
                 {

  Change it to the following:

       replacement _mouse_action(int event, int modifier,
                                 int parm2, int parm3)
            {
            int i;                /* this dummy loop slows down */
            for (i=0;i<1000;i++); /* the mouse actions in Brief */
            switch (event)
                 {


  The number (1000 in this case) will determine how slow the mouse
  actions should be.  You will have to experiment with this number
  to determine what works best for your computer.

  After making the modifications, you need to compile and load the
  macro before it will take effect.  With the macro loaded into
  Brief, press <ALT><F10>.  Brief will compile the macro, and if it
  compiles successfully, load the macro into memory.  You then can
  test out the scroll bars, and other mouse actions, to see if the
  speed is acceptable.

       Once the macro is tailored to your liking, you must
  configure Brief to load the MOUSE.CM macro every time it loads.













  PRODUCT  :  Brief                                 NUMBER  :  1289
  VERSION  :  3.1
       OS  :  DOS
     DATE  :  October 25, 1993                         PAGE  :  2/2

    TITLE  :  Slowing down the scrollbar speed in Brief.




  You can do this by placing the following at the end of your
  BFLAGS statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

       -mmouse

  So a sample BFLAGS might look like this:

       set BFLAGS=-bf120kMt -mABC -mmouse

       The workaround has now been implemented and BRIEF is now
  changed to work properly on your machine.  Congratulations!


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