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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: controlling the mouse cursor
Summary: How to get exactly zero or one "hide mouse" effect
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.004308.29794@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:43:08 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.161838@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com> <1991Feb6.221439.2486@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <28607@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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I have a little sub-desktop a-la the TDI desktop for controlling some stuff.
If I invoke a program from it that doesn't do the same number of "show mouse"
and "hide mouse" operations, either because it's ill-behaved or it crashed,
the mouse is screwed up when I get back to my sub-desktop.  I've tried lots of
things with GrafMouse, VDI and LineA to get the mouse cursor back to exactly
zero "show mouse" / "hide mouse" parity.  Nothing seems to work.  (Yes, I think
I've set the VDI / LineA argument that says "set hide mouse count to zero"
correctly.)  How does the desktop do it?

Thanks in advance for any information you're able to give me.

Van Snyder = vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov

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