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daren@umbc5.umbc.edu Daren Arnold (C at University of Maryland, Baltimore Count
writes:
>I wrote a little program to pop-up a menu whereever the left mouse button is
>clicked. The menu consists of a hand-built object tree, basically pretty simple
>stuff.  The problem I am having is with the mouse pointer!!  I know that the
>AES records the # of times you GRAF_MOUSE(M_OFF, 0L), and that you must
>issue an equal # of M_ON's to restore the mouse. My question: Is there anyway
>to over-ride this mechanism?  If not, is there a way to find out how many times
>the mouse has been hidden (not counting mousehidden in msh!).
>I am using MWC 3.0.5, a .5meg ST, and the tos 1.0.

I believe that the VDI routine show_mouse(vdihandle, 0)
will accomplish the task.

-Joe Gilray