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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dmouse bug?
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Date: 19 May 88 16:32:29 GMT
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In article <3819@cbmvax.UUCP| carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
|In article <3813@cbmvax.UUCP| carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
||In article <9164@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|||Dmouse does not seem to work with Emacs from the Extras disk.  That is,
|||the cursor never goes away.  The mouse colors are different when on
|||the emacs window, so what does emacs do to get dmouse to foul up? (Andy?)
||
||Emacs and some other programs do not use the default pointer as-is but
||rather copy it, change the colors, and SetPointer() to it.
||Dmouse probably just acts on the default pointer.
|
|Sorry - I take back my previous answer.  The stuff I said about what
|Emacs does with the pointer is correct.  However, I just noticed
|that with DMouse, my AmigaTerm pointer did blank out, and AmigaTerm
|is another program that SetPointer()'s a color-swapped version of
|the user's default pointer.
|
|So I tried Emacs - and the pointer DID blank out for me.
|I don't know why your pointer won't blank with Dmouse and Emacs...
|When you say "cursor" you are talking about the Mouse cursor, right ?

Right.  The last posted version of Dmouse (was it 1.03?) did not blank
out the mouse "pointer" when I was using Andy's Emacs .
The one I just got directly from Matt (1.06?) blanks it out like a champ.  
I don't know why.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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