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- From: stirling@hursley.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Mouse pointer "icon"???
- Message-ID: <Jul30.104407.33875@aixssc.ibm.co.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:41:54 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.164707.14443@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Sender: stirling@hursley.ibm.com
- Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England
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- In <1992Jul29.164707.14443@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, jfo8808@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.F. Olshefsky ) writes:
- >
- >Because I'm insane and therefore want a fork (eating utensil) for a
- >mouse pointer, I was wondering if anyone had any luck finding the way
- >to change the pointer. I've managed to create the fork pointer using
- >the icon editor (fyi, create a new file and it's obvious how to select
- >pointers). I tried filefind on the system drive with *.PTR and could
- >only locate the template for pointers, which does me little to no good.
- >
- >Btw, if this was posted before, call me stupid and tell me to get a
- >tutor on how to properly post -- the former message shouldn't have
- >posted, at least according to the message it yelled at me.
- >
-
- The mouse pointer is held as a resource within DISPLAY.DLL. What I have done in
- the past is to use a resource editor to extract the mouse pointer, it has always
- been resource 1, use the icon editor to change it, and finally used the resource
- editor to replace it in DISPLAY.DLL.
-
- I do not know where you will find a suitable resource editor. The one I used is
- an internal program, and doesn't work on OS/2 2.0 yet.
-
- Cheers,
- Ian Stirling Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com
- CICS/ESA Systems Facilities Bitnet: ian at vnet
- IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com
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