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- From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: DECwindows and the Starship Enterprise
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.122305.4944@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:23:05 -0600
- References: <C0JI5x.Erw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan8.115456.13425@bsu-ucs>
- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <1993Jan8.115456.13425@bsu-ucs>, 00mjstum@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- (Matthew J. Stum) writes:
- > ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu writes:
- >> In Kevin Barkes' "DCL Dialogue" column in this month's
- >> DECprofessional magazine, he indicates that by changing the
- >> value of sm.pointer_shape to -142, in the file
- >> DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT, the DECwindows pointer
- >> will be changed to an outline of the "starship Enterprise".
- >>
- >> This seems to work.
- >>
- >> Is there somewhere a list of accepted pointer types??????
- >> Possibly other arrow styles????
- >
- > I saw a similar reference quite awhile ago (months) but had _just_ switched
- > to Motif and, alas, the table of values given didn't work. I assume this is
- > a DECwindows thing only, not Motif. Or is it? Any way I can access this
- > alternate list of pointer shapes from Motif?
-
- Yes. With Motif, sm.pointer_shape is in DECW$SMB_POINTER_COLOR.DAT instead.
- For a list of values, see DECW$INCLUDE:CURSORFONT.H (give the negative of the
- value shown). I use -104, the sailboat.
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