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From: t-benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple
Message-ID: <1690@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 19:45:56 GMT
References: <806@trwspf.TRW.COM> <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: t-benw@microsoft.uucp (Benjamin Waldman)
Organization: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
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In article <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
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>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?
Although this doesn't do exactly what you want, you might find it useful.
There is a global variable called CaretTime, a longword at $2f4, which
control the blinking rate of the cursor (the Control Panel sets this
variable when you change the cursor blinking speed).  TextEdit uses
this value to determine its caret blinking, and applications are supposed
to check it themselves.  Anyway, you could change the value of this
variable, increasing the time between blinks.  Unfortunately, then, you'll
have a long time with the cursor on, followed by a long time with it off.
I've tried this with MS Word 3.02, and it works.

Ben Waldman
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corp.

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, opinions, and ideas, and are not related
in any way to those of my employer.