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Article #1236Re: getting current cursor
From: Bill de Beaubien
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 14:42
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 14:42
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In article <1991May31.120405.12515@cbnewsk.att.com> tbc@cbnewsk.att.com (thomas.b.cook) writes: >I want to be able to get the current text cursor shape, so that I >can change it in my application, and then restore it when I'm finished. >Setting the cursor is ok (bios 10H)...but how can you read it? > >Thanks. >Tom Cook att!pruxg!tbc 609-639-3131 From Ralf Brown's Interrupt Listing, release 25: Int 10h, Service 3 - Get Cursor Position and Size AH = 03h BH = page number 0-3 in modes 2&3 0-7 in modes 0&1 0 in graphics modes Return: AX = 0h (Phoenix BIOS) CH = start scan line CL = end scan line DH = row (00h is top) DL = column (00h i sleft) Note: a separate cursor is maintained for each of up to 8 display pages -- "Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard." "Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?" ------------------------------------------------------------- Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!rit!moscom!wjb From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: getting current cursor Message-ID: <2774@moscom.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 91 14:42:00 GMT References: <1991May31.120405.12515@cbnewsk.att.com> Reply-To: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) Distribution: usa Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY Lines: 29