Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!bohra!ejp From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Another tiny R5 wish Message-ID: <421@bohra.cpg.oz> Date: 23 Jul 90 02:44:18 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia Lines: 16 I'd like to see something which allows Motif to tell the server to flash the cursor without having to do it all itself. Presently Motif has to add a timeout handler, receive the timeout event, despatch the event, determine the current cursor state, XOR the cursor state, add the timeout again, all to flash the cursor. About two pages of code to flash the lights, not to mention the network traffic, the paging activity (leaping all over libXM.a, libXt.a, and libX11.a) ... Or perhaps this is a protocol change & thus belongs to X.V12? Anyway, it amazes me that the server can't flash the cursor. -- Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group ejp@bohra.cpg.oz D