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From: mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu (Dean (The Mysterious One) Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Quickdraw global access in LSP 2.0?
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Date: 7 Feb 89 21:18:00 GMT
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  I'm writing a program for a class, and I want to change the cursor depending
on where the mouse is.  If it's in a window, I want the cross cursor.  If it's
somewhere else, I want the arrow cursor.
  Theoretically speaking, it should be no problem.  I've done similar things 
before in MPW and Turbo Pascal.  Do a GetMouse, and depending on the point, do
a SetCursor(crsr), and so on.  My problem is that LightSpeed Pascal 2.0 won't
let me access the QuickDraw global arrow.
  I do a SetCursor(arrow); and it gives me a type incompatibility, or something
along that line.  I thought THINK might have made it into a CursHandle, and
tried dereferncing it, and it comes back with 'Too many ^...'.  I've looked
all over the manual, and it doesn't say a thing about it.
  I've resorted to making my own arrow CURS resource, but it seems silly to
have to do that when it's already done for me.  Anyone know what I'm doing
wrong, or how to work around it?
  Many thanks.


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