getting current cursor

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2 total messages Started by thomas.b.cook Fri, 31 May 1991 12:04

#1233

Author: thomas.b.cook
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 12:04

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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

Re: getting current cursor

#1236

Author: Bill de Beaubien
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


-- 
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"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com

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