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From: zmact61@tsun6.doc.ic.ac.uk.doc.ic.ac.uk (D Spinellis)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: IBMPC EGA MOUSE curses shape
Summary: Pass the address of the parameter
Keywords: Mouse Curses shape
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Date: 16 Jan 90 11:31:14 GMT
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In article <11004@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> chiu@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (John-Son Chiu) writes:
>
>	I am working on a program which can define the mouse curses shape
>under EGA mode 16, I am using MSC V5.1 and microsoft Mouse EGA Lib.
>After compiling, it shown a funny curses shape. Can any one help me on this.
[...]
>	m1 = 9;                 /* Set the mouse cursor shape, color, and
>				   Hot spot */
>	m2 = 5;                 /* Horizontal hot spot */
>	m3 = 0;                 /* Vertical hot spot */
>	cmousel( &m1, &m2, &m3, curshap);
[...]

Change this to:
	m4 = curshap;
	cmousel(&m1, &m2, &m3, &m4);

The fourth argument to cmousel should be a pointer to memory containing
the address of the cursor shape, NOT the address of the cursor shape
directly.

Diomidis
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