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From: eli@aspasia.gang.umass.edu (Eli Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: changing the cursor character in Turbo Pascal
Keywords: cursor
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Date: 8 Aug 90 19:48:00 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).
>
>Thanx in advance,
>
>Ray
>lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu

There are several ways to do this, none of which are really good.  You can
turn the cursor off on EGA/VGA by tweaking the hardware, but this doesn't
work on CGA.  You can move the cursor off-screen, but you may still get
some cursor-flicker when you move it back on to print something.  The
method I prefer is to park it offscreen and then never move it back on - just
write directly to video memory.  Faster, too, particularly in v3.0

Eli