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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:49 -0300
From: Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Trying to hide cursor on a DOS box on WinNT
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Manuel Collado wrote:

>Andrew Cottrell wrote:
>  
>
>>>I'm trying to do that with conio funtions, but fail. I've searched the
>>>FAQ with no luck. I'm using
>>>
>>>      _setcursortype (_NOCURSOR);
>>>
>>>But it only works in fullscreen mode, not inside a DOS window. In that
>>>case
>>>the behaviour is somehow erratic, and usually the cursor shows up all
>>>the time.
>>>      
>>>
>>I have used this for a long long time and it has worked for me on
>>everything from DOS, WIn 9x, NT 4.0 SP2 through SP6, 2K and XP.
>>    
>>
>
>Let me explain better. The problem appears only when executing the
>program twice in sequence in a DOS windows (not in fullcreen mode)
>
Thatīs a bug in windows, it fails to hide the cursor when you are windowed.
I have the same problem in Turbo Vision.

SET

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