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- From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
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- Subject: Re: Keeping the cursor visible
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:14:13 GMT
- References: <Btwnq8.LMv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <Btwnq8.LMv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath) writes:
- >
- > writes to the TextEdit record, the cursor is hidden by (I assume) a
- > call to ObscureCursor. Is it OK to keep calling ShowCursor ...
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- ShowCursor won't actually show the cursor if it's only obscured. I don't
- think there's a legal way to unobscure a cursor, however, setting the low-
- memory global CrsrNew = 0xFF forces it to really redraw. (CrsrNew is 0x8CE and
- is a 1-byte value).
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- Scott Lindsey <wombat@claris.com>
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