[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Blinking TextEdit caret

blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (08/07/88)

Jack Campin (jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk) writes:
|Now for a harder one. How do you stop the insertion-point cursor in a word
|processor (I use WriteNow, but they all do it) from blinking? Ideally, how
|do you stop it but leave yourself the option to reactivate it while the
|program is running... or am I fantasizing?

The caret is blinked occassionally when the application calls TeIdle.
There is also a field in the textEdit record called teCarLoop which can
be replaced with a pointer to a routine to draw the caret.  Given this,
it should be possible to do some trap patching and fooling around so that
a function key or cdev could control the caret.  If someone doesn't take
this up I may have to do it, just to see if it can be done.

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