From: "Wim Cools" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Mouse cursor in text-mode Lines: 20 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:26:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.46.2.188 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT chello DOT nl X-Trace: nlnews00.chello.com 973092373 213.46.2.188 (Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:26:13 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:26:13 GMT Organization: chello broadband To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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