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From: ekberg@asl.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Hiding the mouse pointer for text editor
Message-ID: <9104032337.AA18547@aslss01.asl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:37:28 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Just to be pickier....
 > Just to be picky....
 > 
 > > [...] change the cursor to a blank one (created by using an all-0s
 > > bitmap for both the cursor and the mask).
 > 
 > If the mask bitmap is all-0s, it doesn't matter what the cursor bitmap
 > is.  (Note also that there's no need for the bitmaps to be bigger than
 > 1x1, so be nice to your server and save memory :-)

If one uses the same pixmap of zeros for both the source and mask then the
server will not need to use any extra memory for the source.

  -- tom, ekberg@asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)