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PS 05 - Animating the Cursor at VBL Time (9-Jan-97)
Q
I'm using the code from page 4-16 of
Inside Macintosh: Processes in to
animate the cursor at VBL time, but it crashed (with the
stack crawl indicating SetCursor as the culprit). What's up?
A
When hardware cursor support was added to the system (System 7.5.2 for
PCI Power Macs), SetCursor started requiring A5 to refer to a valid
QuickDraw globals world. Despite the fact that the code to which you
refer accesses no global variables, your app
still needs to make sure A5 is set up for SetCursor's benefit.
An explanation of setting up A5 in a VBL task can be found on page 4-13
of
Inside Macintosh: Processes.
--Pete Gontier
Worldwide Developer Technical Support
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