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From: KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: What would I use ShieldCursor for?
Message-ID: <90256.220144KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:01:44 GMT
Organization: University of Liverpool
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I was browsing IM 1 yesterday and came across ShieldCursor() for the first
time (I had not noticed it before). Like all new calls I try to think
what it would be useful for, where I my use it in an application. After
some thought I couldn't come up with any idea of what it would be used
for. So I asked a fellow Mac programmer at the university today, and
after reading the discription through a couple of times he couldn't think
of a use either.

ShieldCursor is defined in the following manner (no IM to hand so this
is a paraphrase):

ShieldCursor(r: Rect; p: Point); IM I 474

If p is in r then the cursor is hidden else if the cursor is stationary
the cursor is hidden when the mouse if moved.

Could somebody give me a suggestion?

Anybody know if it is used in an application I might easily see?

Email or post here.

Kevin Purcell          | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
Surface Science,       |
Liverpool University   | Programming the Macintosh is easy if you understand
Liverpool L69 3BX      | how the Mac works and hard if you don't. -- Dan Allen