From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Dec 27 08:25:49 2008 From: Andreas Schwab To: "Johan Klockars" Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] an urgent GEM question :-) References: <1230022147.7318.6.camel@joy> <20081223172329.6b2125e8@phineus> X-Yow: BARBARA STANWYCK makes me nervous!! Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:23:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Johan Klockars's message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:54:15 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: schwab@suse.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id mBRDPmpY007471 "Johan Klockars" 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."