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From: dolanmic@nic.cerf.net (Michael A. Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: pointers
Message-ID: <447@nic.cerf.net>
Date: 11 Jun 91 00:56:44 GMT
Organization: CERFnet;  La Jolla, CA
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 was hoping that someone reading this group could help with with the 
following problem:

I need to change the pointer image during the execution of a motif app.
From within a callback, I am calling the standard Xlib stuff to put
up an hourglass, using the following code:

change_cursor( w )
widget	w;
{
	XDefineCursor( XtDisplay( w ), XtWindow( w ),
		XcreateFontCursor( XtDisplay( w ), XC_gumby ) );
}

and I am tearing it down with:

unchange_cursor( w )
{
	XUndefineCursor( XtDisplay( w ), XtWindow( w ) );
}

Nothing appears to happen, however. Is there something special, or 
a special circumstance, under which I can change the cursor shape?

Any help would be appreciated.

Please reply back at age!syd@ucsd.com if you can help.

My worry here is that Motif won't allow me to do this.

Syd Logan
Software Engineer,
AGE Logic, Inc.
age!syd@ucsd.com
(619)455-8600