[comp.sys.amiga] DMOUSE: bug in mouse blanking

cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (05/20/88)

I had noticed that every now and then the mouse wouldn't blank, and I've
tried to figure out why and at last I have:

dmouse won't blank the mouse if it has just been thrown onto a new
screen because one was created or annihilated underneath it.  For
example, I'm in Online! now and the mouse is still there: Online!'s new
screen undid the mouse blank.  The mouse will stay until I move it
 - as soon as I move the mouse, even a single pixel, the blanking works
again.  And... when I exit online!, if I just amiga-Q out, I'll be
dumped back to my WB screen, and (as I noticed earlier this evening),
if I then just wander away from the amiga, the screen will blank but
the mouse won't... once I touch the mouse on the WB screen, then
blanking works fine again.
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papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (05/20/88)

In article <24801@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I had noticed that every now and then the mouse wouldn't blank, and I've
>tried to figure out why and at last I have:
>dmouse won't blank the mouse if it has just been thrown onto a new
>screen because one was created or annihilated underneath it.  For

I guess this is the same as the problem I had with Emacs.  It is fixed in the
last release (1.06, not yet released for public consumption).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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