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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sfpp.com!longo
  2. From: longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  4. Subject: Re: DECwindows and the Starship Enterprise
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan8.124253.27@sfpp.com>
  6. Date: 8 Jan 93 12:42:53 PST
  7. References: <C0JI5x.Erw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Organization: Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines
  9. Lines: 104
  10.  
  11. In article <C0JI5x.Erw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () writes:
  12. > 
  13. > 
  14. > In Kevin Barkes' "DCL Dialogue" column in this month's
  15. > DECprofessional magazine, he indicates that by changing the
  16. > value of sm.pointer_shape to -142, in the file
  17. > DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT, the DECwindows pointer
  18. > will be changed to an outline of the "starship Enterprise".
  19. > 
  20. > This seems to work.
  21. > 
  22. > Is there somewhere a list of accepted pointer types??????
  23. > Possibly other arrow styles????
  24. -- 
  25. The following pointer types are defined:
  26.  
  27. X_cursor        0
  28. arrow            2
  29. based_arrow_down    4
  30. based_arrow_up        6
  31. boat            8
  32. bogosity        10
  33. bottom_left_corner    12
  34. bottom_right_corner    14
  35. bottom_side        16
  36. bottom_tee        18
  37. box_spiral        20
  38. center_ptr        22
  39. circle            24
  40. clock            26
  41. coffee_mug        28
  42. cross            30
  43. cross_reverse        32
  44. crosshair        34
  45. diamond_cross        36
  46. dot            38
  47. dotbox            40
  48. double_arrow        42
  49. draft_large        44
  50. draft_small        46
  51. draped_box        48
  52. exchange        50
  53. fleur            52
  54. gobbler            54
  55. gumby            56
  56. hand1            58
  57. hand2            60
  58. heart            62
  59. icon            64
  60. iron_cross        66
  61. left_ptr        68
  62. left_side        70
  63. left_tee        72
  64. leftbutton        74
  65. ll_angle        76
  66. lr_angle        78
  67. man            80
  68. middlebutton        82
  69. mouse            84
  70. pencil            86
  71. pirate            88
  72. plus            90
  73. question_arrow        92
  74. right_ptr        94
  75. right_side        96
  76. right_tee        98
  77. rightbutton        100
  78. rtl_logo        102
  79. sailboat        104
  80. sb_down_arrow        106
  81. sb_h_double_arrow    108
  82. sb_left_arrow        110
  83. sb_right_arrow        112
  84. sb_up_arrow        114
  85. sb_v_double_arrow    116
  86. shuttle            118
  87. sizing            120
  88. spider            122
  89. spraycan        124
  90. star            126
  91. target            128
  92. tcross            130
  93. top_left_arrow        132
  94. top_left_corner        134
  95. top_right_corner    136
  96. top_side        138
  97. top_tee            140
  98. trek            142
  99. ul_angle        144
  100. umbrella        146
  101. ur_angle        148
  102. watch            150
  103. xterm            152
  104.  
  105. I forget the rule for making the value negative.  I think all non-DEC pointers
  106. need to be set to negative values.
  107.  
  108. Enjoy!
  109. -Bob
  110.  
  111. ==============================================================================
  112. Bob Longo (longo@sfpp.com)
  113. Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines
  114. Los Angeles, CA
  115.