Working in the SAS Windowing Environment

Using the Mouse under OpenVMS

You can use the left mouse button to make a mark, and the middle mouse button to paste the mark into a SAS window. Although the right mouse button is not used in cut-and-paste operations, various procedures use the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu.

SAS Mouse Pointer Shapes

When you use the SAS windowing interface under OpenVMS, you see several mouse pointer shapes. If the mouse pointer has its standard shape (usually an arrow), SAS is ready to receive your input.

Besides the standard shape, two other mouse pointer shapes are common:

watch (or clock) cursor: indicates that you must wait. SAS is performing other tasks and is not ready to accept your input.
dash inside a circle: indicates that the pointer is in an inactive window. User interaction with this window is temporarily disabled.

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