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Re: cursor/caret question

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From: Marco Papa
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 07:07
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In article <32906@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis) writes:
>I am working on a program that constantly moves caret around the screen,
>unfortunately when I use SetCaretPos() to advance caret to a new postion
>most of the time the caret doesn't get erased from the previous position. 
>any suggestions would be appreciated

Have you tried the following?

HideCaret()
.... do stuff ....
SetCaretPos()
ShowCaret()

-- Marco
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Subject: Re: cursor/caret question
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