Mouse Systems Mouse Causes Hang in Some Situations (26903)




This article was previously published under Q26903

SUMMARY

If you have a Mouse Systems mouse installed, compiling a program into an .EXE file from inside the QB.EXE version 4.0 Editor will hang your computer.

A customer also reported that the Mouse Systems mouse (driver MSCMOUSE.SYS version 6.23) caused QB.EXE version 4.5 to hang; Microsoft has not confirmed this report. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The Mouse Systems mouse works properly for pulling down menu options or selecting commands.

The workarounds for this problem are as follows:

  1. The hanging may not occur if the mouse is not moved at all during compilation.
  2. Compile from the DOS command line using BC.EXE instead of compiling with "Make EXE" in the QB Editor.
The Mouse Systems mouse was not officially supported with previous versions of QuickBasic; only the Microsoft Mouse was supported.

The following is a code example: 
' Trying to make an EXE of this program from within the editor by
' selecting the Make EXE command from the Run menu will hang the
' machine if you have a Mouse Systems mouse installed.
PRINT "Hello"
Modification Type: Minor Last Reviewed: 1/8/2003
Keywords: KB26903
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