kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (09/19/88)
I dislike the I-Beam cursor when the hot-spot is so high in the cursor. To fix this I went into the System and added a little cross-hair near the bottom of the cursor and moved the hot-spot to there. Finder didn't notice the change, so I went into Finder to change its cursor the same way. . . . Finder had no I-Beam resource I could find. I recently was cursing MicroSoft for not using a cursor resource in Word 3.01 and now I see the Finder in the same condition. Where are they getting their cursor? Are they breaking the rules? Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or hscfvax!lloyud!uucp
Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com (09/21/88)
Special cursors are stored in the program that wants them. (Like hands and stuff). But the I beam, the watch, a cross hair thin, and a thick cross hair (I think the thick cross hair, but I am not sure, I know there are four though) are all in the system file. Change them there. If the normal one comes up, you will know that the application has its own. I changed my I beam into two triangles, one pointing down, and one pointing up, with the hot spot right in the middle. In case you are wondering where the arrow is, it is in the ROMs. (Remember, it comes up when you first turn the Mac on.) Mark Cookson
jmunkki@santra.HUT.FI (Juri Munkki) (09/22/88)
In article <200@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes: >the same way. . . . Finder had no I-Beam resource I could find. I >Where are they getting their cursor? The I-beam cursor is located in some ROMs. To use the cursor resource from your system file, add the resource type and number to its ROV# list. >Are they breaking the rules? No, it's all documented in IM IV and V. Juri Munkki jmunkki@santra.hut.fi jmunkki@fingate.bitnet P.S. I haven't actually tested this.