From:	nospam DOT cbrooker AT iafrica DOT com (Marc Brooker)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Getting back mouse in Allegro GUI
Date:	Sat, 01 May 1999 10:39:34 GMT
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How do I get back the mouse in the allegro GUI. I am writing a program
that when a button is pressed it changes the screen mode, color depth
and clears the screen. After the process is finished it restores the
screen mode that the gui was in, sends a MSG_DRAW message and returns
D_REDRAW to the GUI handler.

The whole gui readraws fine but the mouse cursor dissapears. I tried
calling show_mouse but I got a SIGSEGV (for obvious reasons). Is there
any way to get the mouse pointer back or should I restructure my
program so it ends the dialog, does it's stuff, and restarts it. 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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