[futurebasic] Re: [FB] re:Animated Cursor

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From: Pete <furbies@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:26:51 +1100
tedd on 28/2/02 1:10 AM  scrawled:

>> 
>> Could it be that you're (Jim H) looking for the old fashioned:
>> 
>> DEF CYCLE (270,277,mycursor%)
>> 
>> which cycles the cursor through, in this case, cursors #270 to #277?
>> 
>> Ted Spencer; tedspencer@...
> 
> 
> Yeah, that was my guess as well --
> 
> DEF CYCLE (256, 263, currentCursor)    'cycle cursor resources from
> 256 to 263 (add one per pass)
> CURSOR currentCursor     'change cursor as what DEF CYCLE determines
> 
> -- as from one of my programs.
> 
> The only problem here is that Jim wanted a colored cursor. But, if I
> had to add more than 10 lines of code to my program to do it, then
> the user would be stuck with a black/white cursor.

Doesn't FB^3 CURSOR try for a colour cursor before defaulting to a B&W
cursor ?

> tedd

-- 
Pete...                     (the other one)