I had forgotten how bad that cursor is in EDIT, I use SETEDIT for most
everything these days. I just tried a no-blink utility and that helps a bit
more, but not enough to waste the memory.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:06 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
> I tried this today. It improves the pointer situation in Edit, but the
> arrow gets chopped up a lot as I move it around.
>
> Something about Edit seems to be hostile to pointers. Nothing else looks
> nearly so bad.
>
> But for the degree of improvement in Edit, it sits in memory all the time
> occupying 7K, so I may remove it and let Edit function like keyboard-only.
>
>
> On 2/20/2016 6:37 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool.
> http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
>
>> With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware (Pentium
>> II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I find that
>> the mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost invisible. There
>> are partial-image flashes of the expected brown rectangle. But if I
>> open a menu, then there is a nice solid brown rectangle while the menu
>> is open.
>>
>> In the FreeDOS Help system, the pointer is a nice solid gray.
>>
>> I got the same results with 2 LCD monitors and also a CRT.
>>
>> I don't have anything additional installed on this system yet so I don't
>> know what the behavior will be in other programs.
>>
>> The mouse pointer has never been pretty in Edit -- it's usually flashing
>> but fully visible -- but I have never seen it virtually invisible like
>> this. Initially I thought there was no pointer until I stepped through
>> the Autoexec.bat startup and confirmed that MOUSE does indeed run
>> successfully, after which I looked harder and saw the visual traces of
>> the pointer in Edit.
>>
>> Does anyone have an explanation or solution?
>>
>>
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