Re: dd: speed up mouse with Cocoa?
Re: dd: speed up mouse with Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: dd: speed up mouse with Cocoa?
- From: dave dowling <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:49:44 -0500
i contacted Ben Hines, the author of MouseZoom, who was kind enough
to share the source for MouseZoom with me. thanks, Ben!
while attempting to change the mouse acceleration on my own (before
contacting Ben), i found the com.apple.mouse.scaling parameter in
Users/me/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist (using the
PropertyListEditor developer app). i reset this parameter to 5.0
(1.7 was the highest the mouse prefPane slider would set it to),
saved the plist, logged out and logged in again, only to discover
that the value had been reset to 1.7. i'm guessing that this is
something the system does in its startup routine.
anyway, i look forward to seeing the inner workings of all of this
in Cocoa. thanks again, Ben.
On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 01:51 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
At 10:53 PM -0500 3/15/02, Andy Lee wrote:
I imagine there's more to mouse speed than one parameter, but a
"defaults read -globalDomain" only showed that one. Maybe you
could install MouseZoom and see what it does to your defaults --
kind of reverse-engineer it.
Or you could ask me. :)
MouseZoom 2.0+ sets the HIDMouseAcceleration and
HIDTrackpadAcceleration keys in the
IOHIDSystem IOKit class using IOHIDSetAccelerationWithKey.
In addition, it sets the com.apple.mouse.scaling parameter, which
is read at login time only.
-Ben
-- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/
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thanks.
dave dowling
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