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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: changing the cursor character in Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.062325.19581@uwasa.fi>
Date: 8 Aug 90 06:23:25 GMT
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In article <3979@rex.cs.tulane.edu> lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang) writes:
>
>How do you change the cursor character in Turbo Pascal version 3?
>
>What I want to do is change it to a space (i.e., make it invisible)
>and then for certain parts of the program change it back to an
>underline (make it visible again).

This may sound glib, but is not intended so.  You change cursor
*size* in TP 3.0 in the same way as you would in 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5. 
For the code see almost any good TP book, such as O'Brien, Turbo
Pascal, the Complete Reference, Borland Osborne.  And the cursor is
not made up of characters at all, but of what is called scan lines. 
You also really get a newer version of TP, because you'll also have
to detect the video adapter (if you want to make your routine
general).  These things are much easier under the later versions.
Also, if you have 4.0, 5.0, or 5.5 you don't have to write the
cursor routine at all, because there are PD units around that
contain the code all ready.  One (/pc/ts/tspas21.arc) can be
anonymous ftp from our site.

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