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From: mjl@alison.at (Martin J. Laubach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Mouse blanking
Message-ID: <mjl.8769@alison.at>
Date: 11 May 91 20:18:12 GMT
References: <jsmoller.5147@jsmami.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjl@alison.at
Organization: The Austrian Amiga Developers Association/ETA002
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In article <jsmoller.5147@jsmami.UUCP>, Jesper Steen Moller writes:

| Isn't the best way of blanking the mouse to use SetPointer with
| a transparent image on the active window, just for the sake of
| compatibility? One day, the mouse-pointer may not be a sprite...

  Nope, it won't work. Suppose I'm in an editor, writing text. The mouse
is blanked as it should be. Now the editor opens a new window ("Do you
really want to save?"), and -poof- the pointer reappears.

	mjl