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From: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Cursors in HyperCard
Message-ID: <368@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Feb 88 12:28:18 GMT
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Reply-To: davide@qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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Summary: Don't let HC get control


 HyperCard returns the cursor to what it was when it sends an
idle message, the way to keep your own cursor is to make sure
that a script is running all the time you want the cursor
displayed.  In one of my stacks I wrote a mousewithin function
which checked to see that the cursor was still over the button
and included a mouse down detector within a repeat while
mousewithin = true loop. This kept the cursor to what I had set
it to while the cursor was over the button.

I hope this helps, Dave.