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From: juan@gatech.edu (Juan M. Orlandini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DMOUSE V1.03 SHAR (lockup condition)
Summary: another bug (in DMouse)
Message-ID: <17143@gatech.edu>
Date: 15 May 88 16:05:58 GMT
References: <8805110722.AA28312@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <3299@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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This isn't about a lockup condition, rather about the non disapearing pointer.

If for some reason the screen blanks normally (as in during a long download),
and you get a message requester, the screen un-blanks, and then re-blanks, but
this time it leaves the pointer on. 

The mouse pointer also does not disapear if a screen/window gets created/
deleted, and the mouse is not moved.

If I may suggest, could you not change the pointer to something interesting
(like a amiga checkmark) when the screen blanks, and then make it bounce
around the screen until the mouse/keyboard/drive (or other event) makes the
screen come back alive. Then you could restore the pointer to its original
shape and position. Make sense? Is it posible? it's a cludgy solution to the
non-disapearing pointer, but an aesthetic one.



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