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From: merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple
Keywords: blinking cursor
Message-ID: <9668@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 88 14:36:48 GMT
References: <806@trwspf.TRW.COM> <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <9657@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, Jack Campin writes:
>Now for a harder one. How do you stop the insertion-point cursor in a word
>processor (I use WriteNow, but they all do it) from blinking? Ideally, how
>do you stop it but leave yourself the option to reactivate it while the
>program is running... or am I fantasizing?

One way you could do it, I suppose, is to write a DA/CDEV/Whatever to adjust
the cursor blinks.  The number stored the amount of time between blinks.  I
suppose that if you adjust this to zero, the cursor will stop blinking.

Turning it on, just adjust it back using control panels or whatever.
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"It was too late to turn around..."   Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
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