Text Cursor

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 06-09-92 (16:00)             Number: 192
From: CORIDON HENSHAW              Refer#: NONE
  To: RICH GELDREICH                Recvd: NO  
Subj: Text Cursor                    Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
In a msg on <Jun 08 12:18>, Rich Geldreich of 1:266/29 writes:

 RG>     Does anybody out there want a _real_ mouse cursor for the 80x25
 RG> mode? (not the blocky type, but the really smooth kind of cursor that's
 RG> in GDS or Norton Utilities...).
Yeah, I'd like it.
 RG>     I've programmed it in machine language so it's really smooth... It
 RG> works only on the VGA though.
You don't need to use ASM for it.  Just map the graphics cursor to a
charicter (Maybe 255) and use that for the cursor.  I've
got some code from PDS that can map the cursor to any ASCII
char.  (Next two posts)
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