Descriptions of Expert and Standard Mouse Menus

 Last reviewed: September 16, 1996
Article ID: Q23837
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Mouse Driver for MS-DOS, versions 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x

SUMMARY

Mouse menus provide support for using the mouse in applications that are not "mouse aware." The menus are terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs that read information coming from the mouse driver and put appropriate keystrokes into the keyboard buffer.

For information on where to find the Microsoft Mouse menus, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   MOUSE and PRODUCT and BUNDLES and VERSIONS

MORE INFORMATION

The standard mouse menus are loaded with MENU.COM using a .MNU file created by the user. For more information on using standard mouse menus, query on the following word: 

   MENUMAKE.DOC
The expert mouse menus are executable .COM files. They contain pre-defined information designed for use with specific programs. For example, MSWP5.COM is designed to work with WordPerfect 5.0. For more information on using expert menus, query on the following word: 

   MENUREAD.ME

KBCategory: kbhw
KBSubcategory:
Additional reference words: 6.x 7.x 8.00 8.10 9check

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Last reviewed: September 16, 1996
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