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Article #28961Re: Changing the pointer icon
From: David_Alan_Newman
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1988 13:27
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1988 13:27
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As an aside to this discussion, I thought I'd through out a discovery we made earlier this week. For months now, people have reported sightings of a 'trashed' cursor in our product. We only figured out what was causing it two days ago. We relied on the system provided cursors. Normal arrow, edit Ibeam, watch, and fat plus. We found that some DA's, and/or other applications running under MF would issue ReleaseResource calls for all the cursors they had used. This would in effect 'yank' the system cursors right out from under us! System resources are supposed to be shared, image if people started issuing releases for WDEF's, CDEF's, etc! We've taken to using our own cursor resources now, insted on relying on the system provided cursors, with the exception of the normal arrow, which in theory can't be dispossed of. If anyone else has experienced this problem, prehaps this is the cause. And for those of you talking about writting cursor INIT's, remember that there are other applications out there that expect resources to be there, but don't neccessarily care what color they are. Dave Newman Software Ventures
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