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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Novice Question: How to make a cursor larger than 16x16 bitmap?
Keywords: Cursor Pointer, User Defined,
Message-ID: <1990Jun16.154558.1990@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 16 Jun 90 15:45:58 GMT
References: <2678D64B.924@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
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In article <2678D64B.924@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> art@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Art Mulder) writes:
>I know how to use bitmap, and I know how to get twm to use as a cursor
>(mouse pointer) a bitmap file.  However When I try to use a bitmap larger
>than the default 16x16 grid, it gets chopped down to 16x16.

There is no requirement for X servers to handle arbitrarily sized
cursors.  All of the ones I know of will handle 16x16.

I know of at least one X accelerator board that has hardware cursor
support for a 16x16 cursor.  I talked to the people doing the server
for this, and found that they weren't planning to support anything
bigger than 16x16, even by handling it in software.  I was lucky to
find this out when I did, as I had been planning to use the cursor
to implement an area-selection box.

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