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From: john%hopf.math.nwu.edu@eecs.nwu.edu (John Franks)
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Subject: Sunview alert box cursor (arrow) invisible
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Date: 13 Feb 89 19:12:22 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 09:38:45 CST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 151, message 2 of 16

I have just installed SunOS 4.0 on a grayscale 3/110.  I noticed that when
an alert box appears (e.g. to confirm a quit), the arrow mouse cursor is
hard to see.  Actually it is given the background color so it effectively
punches a hole in the alert box.  If it is moved out of the box it is
really invisible and it can be difficult to get it back in the box.

I vaguely recalled reading something about this in sun-spots so I made a
search of our local archives.  Two people reported encountering this
problem (in 6.154 and 6.166) and one kind soul suggested it is a feature
(6.189).  Has anybody found a fix for this problem?

John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
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