Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmtsun!wbnsnsr From: wbnsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Turn on/off cursor? Message-ID: <1567@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 08:04:10 GMT References: <44479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: wbnsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris) Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM Lines: 14 In article <44479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: >How do you turn off the cursor and turn it on again? I need a method >that works well for all video types and I would like to be able to >restore the cursor to its original shape when the program exits. In (Microsoft) C, try: _displaycursor( _GCURSOROFF | _GCURSORON ) -- wbnsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu | /// Seulement William B. Norris IV |\\ /// l'Amiga peut POB #2185 C/S | \\// vous l'offrir. Socorro, NM 87801 |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=