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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: DMOUSE: bug in mouse blanking
Message-ID: <24801@bbn.COM>
Date: 20 May 88 05:29:40 GMT
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Reply-To: cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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I had noticed that every now and then the mouse wouldn't blank, and I've
tried to figure out why and at last I have:

dmouse won't blank the mouse if it has just been thrown onto a new
screen because one was created or annihilated underneath it.  For
example, I'm in Online! now and the mouse is still there: Online!'s new
screen undid the mouse blank.  The mouse will stay until I move it
 - as soon as I move the mouse, even a single pixel, the blanking works
again.  And... when I exit online!, if I just amiga-Q out, I'll be
dumped back to my WB screen, and (as I noticed earlier this evening),
if I then just wander away from the amiga, the screen will blank but
the mouse won't... once I touch the mouse on the WB screen, then
blanking works fine again.
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