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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Graphics cursor handling in Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.151052.16804@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Jan 91 15:10:52 GMT
References: <2829@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <2829@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tswingle@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tom Swingle) writes:
>I am starting a graphics program using Turbo Pascal.  The program will use a
>mouse, if one is present, but I would also like to make the program run without
>a mouse.  This requires me to handle my own cursor if no mouse is detected.  I
>have been doing this with Putimage, in a way like the mouse driver handles the
:

One way of having a cursor in a graphics program is simply drawing
it.  It won't flash, though.  In my own programs I have used the Bar
procedure for the drawing.  No fancy Xor'ings to complicate matters. 
Perhaps /pc/ts/tsdemo14.arc at our archives will give you some ideas
about what it looks like, although it won't give you any code. 

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