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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dmouse and 15 color pointers
Message-ID: <1093@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 11:47:53 GMT
References: <8810040743.AA03497@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <8810040743.AA03497@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> . . . Besides, I'm already going into a system copper
>list to do the blanking... the only thing in DMouse I had to cheat to get
>working.
>
>					-Matt

I hate to expose my total ignorance of the programming aspects of the Amiga,
but I have to ask this dumb question: since Intuition (or some such entity)
allows the mouse pointer to be changed to some arbitrary shape/size/pattern,
be it arrows, clouds, or whatever, why can't a program simply change it to all
transparent background color, thus making it invisible?  Or, does Intuition
step in at this point and complain, figuring that the user has no right to do
this?

I mean, sorry for bring this idea up if it's so obvious & has been tried 100's
of times before, but it seems that it ought to work.
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  - Mike Shawaluk       (...!uunet!uwmcsd1!lakesys!mikes)