[comp.sys.sgi] curson/cursoff

pfl@inesc.UUCP (Pedro Faria Lopes) (10/11/90)

We are currently shooting a computer animated film using a camera pointed to
the PI screen, on a frame by frame basis. The shooting cycle is simple:

	1) open camera shuter
	2) display image centered on the screen
	3) flash image (blanktime x) (for fixed exposure time)
	4) close shuter

All this is clean and works well and I did some optimization to get it done
fast. But there is a small detail remaining. IF WE FORGET THE CURSOR IN THE
IMAGE we get, of course, a beautiful cursor all over the film (yack!).
We are now running 3.2.1 os version. before this I used cursoff() and it was
ok but now it seems this function is not supported anymore. another way to
solve the "problem" would be to force the cursor to go to (0,0) but I
couldn't find a function to do that.
Any hints?
thanks, pedro.
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