Mouse settings cannot be configured using the mouse

At some point in the recent past, the Mouse Configure plugin has been very badly broken indeed.

If you click the Set button – even if you haven’t changed anything – the mouse permanently freezes!

Keyboard remains functional, as does the rest of the desktop – but the mouse won’t move.

Using BASIC’s “MOUSE x%,y%,b%” from a TaskWindow reveals that b% always returns a fixed value of 4 if you clicked Set with Select, or 1 if you clicked it with Adjust. (If you clicked it with Adjust, then the window remains open and the button graphic remains pressed.)

Killing the Configure task doesn’t help (yes, I did manage to do so using only the keyboard – don’t ask how!), but it’s evidently something running in the Wimp, because the only way to get the mouse moving again is to press Ctrl+Shift+F12, at which point normal operation is promptly resumed – just in time to press the ‘Restart’ button…

This is with RISC OS 5.18, on both an Iyonix and ARMini.

Can’t replicate the freeze with latest 5.19, BB xM rev C.

Just tried replacing !MousSetup with the one from the latest HardDisc4 build. Still freezes in exactly the same way.

Let me guess – you’re running !HID. That was recently found to be causing exactly this issue – https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/4/topics/876#posts-10244

Yep – that’s completely right. Well done!

But it’s definitely 100% a HID issue, not an ARMv7 issue, because as mentioned above the Iyonix has exactly the same problem. Does anyone know if this ever worked?

Well HID used to work fine on the Iyonixes…

The only workaround is to get the mouse setup how you want it and then start up HID <— even then if you go for the installation option make sure it is set to start up after the desktop…

It is such a pity that this program is now dead.

Paul Reuvers isn’t exactly gone, but I do need to send him an ARMini to assist his updates… Perhaps after the show…

But it’s definitely 100% a HID issue, not an ARMv7 issue

There are other issues with HID on an ARMini (and presumably any BB) which make it very problematical when used with AEs on. Although I use it on the Iyonix, I do not use it on the ARMini.

Well HID used to work fine on the Iyonixes…

I remember classifying !HID as something that causes Bad Things to Happen on my Iyonix. If it worked fine for you, you clearly had better success than I did.

I had to banish !HID from my Beagleboard, as I remember it kept freezing while !HID was loaded.