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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Finishing up YAIP (Yet Another Input Handler), Need info.
Message-ID: <5918@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 22:28:56 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <8805090351.AA04051@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	After looking at and rejecting several mouse-intuition input
>handler enhancers (you know, accelerate the mouse, click-to-front, etc...)
>and finding them ALL useless, I have written my own.  Before I release it,
>though, I need information on how to clear the intuition pointer sprite...
>as in turn it off after some timeout, then restore it when the mouse is
>moved.
>
>	* I have tried GetPrefs()/SetPrefs().  This works, but has some
>	  nasty side effects, like propogating keyboard input to ALL
>	  console devices for a short period after you SetPrefs().
>
	Sounds like a bug to me, and should be reported if it hasn't
already.

>	* No, SetWindowPointer() does NOT work.. this has got to be global.
>
	At the risk of incurring the most Powerful and Awful Wrath of Jim
Mackraz, I would suggest fiddling around with IntuitionBase.

	I picked through there once, and found a SimpleSprite structure
which I presumed to be the structure that managed the default Intuition
pointer.  "Logic would suggest" that all you need to do is fiddle with it,
pointing it to a blank sprite.

	The other thing you could do is to create a user copper list whose
sole purpose in life is to turn off sprite DMA for sprite channel 0.  This
has a much lower probability of pissing off Jimm, but a higher probability
of breaking on the Hedley hi-res monitor.

	An interesting puzzle, no?  Jimm, help this guy so he can get to
work on "resources".

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