Re: [MiNT] an urgent GEM question :-)

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"Johan Klockars" <johan@klockars.net> writes:

>>> I don't think it was intended to work, in a graphics mode at least.
>>> If you look at the actual VDI call number for v_dspcur() it's in the
>>> same group as v_enter_cur(), v_exit_cur(), v_curdown(), v_eeol(),
>>> v_rvon(), etc. That is, functions that mainly make sense for a text
>>> based (non-graphics) mode.
>>
>> For positioning the alpha cursor the function vs_curaddress is defined.
>
> That's why I was (in the very next paragraph) talking about the
> "hardware mouse cursor".

All the VDI docs I can find talk about the graphics cursor in connection
with v_dspcur.  The Atari does not even have a genuine text mode.

Andreas.

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