Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple sprite question
Message-ID: <3272@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 14:35:58 GMT
References: <880@isrnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <880@isrnix.UUCP> greg@isrnix.UUCP (Gregory Travis) writes:
>If the system is limited to 8 sprites in any given horizontal
>plane and if the CLI cursor is itself a sprite (which I read
>somewhere) howcome I can open more than 10 cli windows on my
>1000?  Note that I make the windows very small and stack them
>horizontally:
>
>	[][][][][][][][][][]
>
>So that their cursors are all on the same scan lines.
>
>-- 

No, the CLI cursors are just bitmap images (if you look when they are over
a character, you will see that they are hi-res too).  The mouse pointer is
the sprite.  I have seen this referred to as a cursor which may have caused
your confusion.

	Steve