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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Cursors in HyperCard
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Date: 1 Feb 88 21:08:57 GMT
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>A little while ago, I downloaded a Rotating Earth Cursor which consists
>of about 7 CURS resources and 1 ascr (I believe) resource.  This was
>meant as a replacement for the spinning watch in Finder 6.0, but I was
>wondering how to implement it in HyperCard.  I tried installing everything
>and set cursor to ID#, but it instantly switched back.  Any ideas
>on how this would be implemented?

A while ago, someone at Fluke wanted an "invisible cursor" for
presentations.  I think there is a better way to do this than our approach,
but we created a new, "blank" cursor and installed it in either the Finder
or the System, I don't remember which -- the tip-off was that there were
five or six cursors there already, each having a resource number
corresponding to the changeable cursors Goodman describes in the HyperCard
book.

Hope that helps...

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