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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Updating Mouse Pointer Information
Keywords: Found a "non-portable method"
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Date: 1 Mar 89 20:01:53 GMT
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In article <2365@scolex.sco.COM> brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes:
>
>A while ago, I asked people about updating the mouse pointer 
>in a global way (ie to change it for all windows).

We thought you might be doing a clock pointer...

>I will be giving this clock/mouse program to the comp.amiga.sources
>people sometime in the future.  That way others can see how
>to do this stuff.

Isn't their one on the 1.3 Extra's disk? I wonder how Andy did it.
There are a couple on fish disks I know.

>Personnally, I would like to see the addition of a system call
>to change the global pointer without having to go through preferences.
>This would make programs like I am writing much easier and more portable
>than they are now.

Personnally, I would like to see someone get creative here and not
mess with the intuition pointer. Rather, initialize Sprite 1 with your
clock and have it follow the Pointer around. Make it so that you can
set the speed in which it moves for some interesting yo-yo effects.

By the way, is your clock round? Or is it one of those digital jobbies
with the digits on top of one another ? I had started one that used
sprites 1 and 2 to make into a single 32 X 32 clock. Never saw the 
light of day though. Oh well.


--Chuck McManis
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