Overview
Welcome to the world of animated mouse pointers! This program permits you
to replace or animate the entire set of OS/2 mouse pointers
with pointer resources of several different formats, including
OS/2 pointer files,
Win* cursor files,
Win* Animation files,
and AniMouse resource DLL files.
You can also create groups of animated pointers by collecting files or animations for the different
OS/2 mouse pointers in a single directory, called an
animation set directory, which can be used
as a mouse pointer resource.
The use of animation set directories greatly simplifies the use of the different
resource types, and enables you to create your own mouse pointer
animations using only the OS/2
Icon Editor.
This capability is unique to Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2.
In addition, you can create
AniMouse resource DLL files
from
OS/2 pointer files;
this saves disk space and makes it easy to handle and distribute your animations.
These
AniMouse resource DLL files,
which can be created with a utility included in the
Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2
package, are compatible with the Animouse package;
however, Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2
provides features not available with Animouse, and is freeware.
Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2 replaces the
Pointers page
in the
Mouse object
so that you can easily configure the animations by modifying the settings of the
Mouse object.
The advanced Drag&Drop functionality provided by
Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2
permits you to
drag any of the
supported resource files
onto the
mouse pointer container
or one of its items (the individual mouse pointers) to easily change
the animation for all of the mouse pointers at once, or for one at a time.
Finally,
Animated Mouse Pointer for OS/2
introduces some new
Mouse object settings strings
so that you can change your animation settings via the REXX API call SysSetObjectData().
Included
REXX sample programs
demonstrate the use of these settings strings; one of these programs will let you
load a randomly-selected animation either at each system start, or periodically,
at an interval that you select.
And you get that all for FREE.
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Prerequisites
This program runs under OS/2 WARP 3 or later and requires
the Workplace Shell.
Download current version
You can download the current version (ca 351.41 Kb) from the following following sources:
You can download additional National Language Support packages for the following languages:
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