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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Subject: Re: Will Apple PLEASE Respond to THIS!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.205710.5456@Think.COM>
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In article <1991Jun7.203001.18442@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>
>In article (whatever it was) I wrote:
>>
>>(lest I get flamed -- the point is not that I [and others] want a nifty
>>8-bit floppy disk icon.  It's that a part of the system that SHOULD work
>>DOESN'T, and nobody at Apple is even ACKNOWLEDGING that fact!!!  A simple
>>"Yes, we know it's there; it'll be fixed in 7.0.1" would do VERY nicely!)
>
>Just to open a whole other can of worms.  Why aren't crsr's supported
>in 7.0 (Well yes you can use your own calls to GetCCursor() and
>SetCCursor() in your apps but why not Finder/System?) If Apple has
>decided on a standard color interface (wctbs, icl8s, etc etc) why
>didn't they include the support for color cursors?  I would think that
>they would want to support all colorization features.
>
>Todd

Hmm... Interesting... I've been using an INIT called ColorCursor (makes the
cursor a nifty rainbow) since Day 1 of having my IIsi, so I never even
thought about that.  But you're right -- I shouldn't HAVE to use an init!
I should just be able to paste the 'crsr' from the INIT into the System and
be done with it!  (gee - has anyone tried this? CAN you do it?)

Ah, the joys of new software.

-_Erik

PS - lest anyone out there think I hate Sys 7, that is far from the truth.
I *love* the software, and wouldn't dream of going back to 6.0.7... I'm
just a gumbler at heart... :-)

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