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- From: troberts@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: multiple mouse cursors on my screen!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160108.2140@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:01:07 -0500
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Georgetown University
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- I'm writing a text-editing program in BC++ to take advantage of the
- extended text modes of my video card. The windowing structures work
- fine in the normal text modes (80x25, 80x43/50), but when I switch to
- the 132 column x 44 row mode, I get sixteen (16) mouse cursors!
- I move the mouse, and sixteen text cursors float all over the screen,
- leaving "garbage" characters behind them.
-
- I want to make my application self configuring, so that it would adapt
- itself to the text resolution of the system when the program was
- called. (So that I (or any one else) could set the resolution to the
- desired width and height at the dos command line and call my program.)
-
- Do I need a special video driver to run in extended text mode? (I
- noticed that the conio.h functions would not show up in the extended
- text mode in some other programs.) My video card is built into my
- motherboard. It has a Western Digital chip and 512k video memory.
-
-
- Looking forward to any response.
- Ted Roberts
- troberts@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
-