From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ALLEGRO mouse help
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:20:23 +0100
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MalcolmJ7 writes:
>When I use allegro's mouse function show_mouse(screen) i never get a 
>cursor on the screen.  I can use the button and x,y variables, but i 
>can't see the cursor.  What am I doing wrong?

Most likely you have forgotten to call install_timer(), which is needed
to display the cursor. From the Allegro docs:

   void show_mouse(BITMAP *bmp);
      Tells Allegro to display a mouse pointer on the screen. This will 
      only work if the timer module has been installed.


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