From:	"Wim Cools" <w DOT cools AT chello DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Mouse cursor in text-mode
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Date:	Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:26:13 GMT
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Hi,

I'm _planning_ on writing a small text-mode shell (such as command.com,
bash, etc.) with a number of consoles running in the background so you can
switch to another console if the current one is doing something, by hitting
ALT-N or something (it's just a build-in prompt i'm going to implement in my
program so the user can so some debugging stuff on a text-mode console, it's
not going to be a very big program!). But it would be nice if I could also
use the mouse in the little program. On my FreeBSD machine I'm running
'moused' to enable mouse functions on the terminal and I wonder how they got
that white-arrow to work in text-mode. I know that you can change the
mouse-arrow in graphics modes and that in SVGA modes you have to draw a
cursor by yourself but does somebody know how to change the mouse cursor in
text mode to a little white arrow or something. I suppose it has something
to do with the VGA font or something but I'm not sure how to do this.
Does somebody knows the answer?

Thanx

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