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From: bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: cursor/caret question
Message-ID: <106580072@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 18:15:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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/ hpcvlx:comp.windows.ms / kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis) /  5:48 pm  Nov 30, 1989 /

Hi, 

I am working on a program that constantly moves caret around the screen,
unfortunately when I use SetCaretPos() to advance caret to a new postion
most of the time the caret doesn't get erased from the previous position

any suggestions would be appreciated

Thank you,

gary
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You need to call HideCaret before moving it, then call ShowCaret afterwards.
[I wasn't directly involved with it, but a word processing programming team
found that this was required to avoid the "caret turds," as they called them.]

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems