On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David C. Tremmel wrote:
> I've been using an image as a cursor, and having some odd problems with
> color. It seems that no matter what I set the foreColor of the image to,
> when used as a cursor it displays as either black (when set to "darker"
> colors) or white (when set to "lighter" colors). Is this normal behavior?
> Is it possible to get the cursor to appear in other colors? I've seen it
> on both Mac (OS 8.6) and Win98 boxes (actually on the Win98 box the image
> always appeared black when used as a cursor).
>
> I also noticed on the Win98 box that the colors did not always appear
> correctly. For example, when I set the foreColor of the image to "blue" it
> turned red; conversely when I set the foreColor to "red" it turned blue.
This is probably just a problem with the way the colormap is stored
with the image. See previous discussions on this issue in the
archives for this list at
http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/
> I'm using v. 2.2.5 of MetaCard.
Color cursors aren't supported. Even if they were, it would be a bad
idea idea to use them because they wouldn't work on the majority of
systems out there because of lack of OS support for this "feature".
Regards,
Scott
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