imj502@csc.anu.edu.au (04/03/91)
G'Day, I am hoping that somebody can help me with an annoying problem I am having with an MSQuickBasic 4.0 program. The problem is that upon exiting the program the DOS cursor is invisible until something like a DIR is done. It is most disconcerting to be faced with a screen with no cursor. Within the program I do lots of COLOR FORGROUND%, BACKGROUND% setting. Initially I did not set the cursor within the program to hidden or visible (LOCATE ,,[1/0]) but I have tried explicitly setting it to visible before leaving the program. This does not make the DOS cursor visible. If anybody knows what is causing this I would be most grateful to hear from you. Many thanks, Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jamie Research School of Chemistry imj502@csc.anu.edu.au Australian National University jamie@rsc.anu.edu.au Canberra, ACT, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr3.090133.1@csc.anu.edu.au> imj502@csc.anu.edu.au writes: >G'Day, > >I am hoping that somebody can help me with an annoying problem I am having with >an MSQuickBasic 4.0 program. The problem is that upon exiting the program the >DOS cursor is invisible until something like a DIR is done. It is most >disconcerting to be faced with a screen with no cursor. > >Within the program I do lots of COLOR FORGROUND%, BACKGROUND% setting. >Initially I did not set the cursor within the program to hidden or visible >(LOCATE ,,[1/0]) but I have tried explicitly setting it to visible before >leaving the program. This does not make the DOS cursor visible. > >If anybody knows what is causing this I would be most grateful to hear from >you. > >Many thanks, >Ian Are you at some point using COLOR 0,0? If so, you will need to do a COLOR 7,0 (or some other color) before exiting your BASIC program. - Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- resnicks@netcom.com, steve@camphq, IFNA: 1:143/105.0, USNail: 530 Lawrence Expressway, Suite 374 Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 - In real life: Steve Resnick. Flames, grammar and spelling errors >/dev/null 0x2b |~ 0x2b, THAT is the question. The Asylum OS/2 BBS - (408)263-8017 12/2400,8,1 - Running Maximus CBCS 1.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------