Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!unix!unix.sri.com!bradst From: bradst@laguna.ai.sri.com (John Bradstreet) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Need Help with "minor" cursor problem Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 23:58:12 GMT References: <1991May16.234723.13550@odetics.com> Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Distribution: na Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: frank@odetics.com's message of 16 May 91 23:47:23 GMT In response to: > I think all I need to do is to inform the server > somehow to use (an) Xor (Cursor) ... Humm... there is supposedly some company out there which holds the patent on Xor cursors which of nothing but a secretary and a lawyer who do nothing all day but sue people who use them. I don't think you want them calling you. Seriously, Xor cursors tend to wash away in noisy images too. I think what you really want is a cursor that has both white and black data in it (say a 1 pixel wide white X on top of a 3 pixel wide black one). I know this is possible - my trivial little paint system (yes I'm also writing one too as my first X program) uses the XC_CROSS, cursor which does this. How, I'm not sure - it certainly isn't a 1-bit cursor. My question is how do you create such 2-bit cursors (?) - Or is it two 1-bit cursors, one of which is being used to mask the other one? (and which I remember reading somewhere you arn't suppose to use because some window managers are too stupid to use). If so, how do you create/manage these guys? (: John Bradstreet :)