nanogui@linuxhacker.org

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> > Fourthly, with my nano-X v0.5 modifications (detailed following) I have
> > re-designed cursor management and no longer use the low-level pointer
> > draw routines in bogl. This was to give some common upper-level code
> > that knows about a nanoX cursor format so that we could support the
> > GR_BITMAP format for cursors.  In addition,  nanoX now supports color
> > cursors, which bogl doesn't.  The new mid-level cursor routines depend
> 
> Is there any point having colour cursors? I don't think I have ever seen X
> or 'doze produce a colour mouse pointer.

At least in the case of X, that is because X uses X bitmaps for pointers,
and X bitmaps are mono only, so X doesn't _support_ colour mouse 
pointers... Don't know about Windows though - I only rarely touch Windows
machines :)

Regards,
Vidar