Re: A86: Re: locked cursor
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Re: A86: Re: locked cursor
Ah, but if I wanted to make an interrupt cursor handler, I could've just
made my own cursor. But I've had some bad experiences with using
interrupt handlers all over in a complicated program... They almost
always find a way of staying active after program exit. I believe that
there is a little Murphy's law interpreter hidden in the ROM somewhere
:)
I wanted a way to do it with just a flag being set or something. Thanks
anyway though.
Cassady Roop
David Phillips wrote:
>
> You need to think about what the ROM does to make the cursor blink. It has
> a counter, it decrements it, and when it reaches a certain value, it makes
> the cursor blink. I wrote this little demo to demostrate how to make the
> cursor not blink. I found that setting it to 2 makes the cursor stay dark,
> and a value of 1 makes it gray (at least on VTI). Let me know if this
> happens on the real calc. Note that my method of calculating the interrupt
> checksum is 9 bytes shorter than the method used by the examples on 86
> Central (and by the ROM itself). If you want if off, just disable it, or
> play with the values (of course disabling it would be The Right Thing to
> do).
>
> > I am trying to display the homescreen cursor but without having it
> > blink. I want it updated with 2ND and ALPHA shift states, but I don't
> > want the darn thing blinking, because I am only using it as an
> > indicator, not a real cursor. How do I go about doing this? I've tried
> > all kinds of combinations of the curFlags bits, to no avail.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: cursor.asm
> cursor.asm Type: Assembly Source File (application/x-unknown-content-type-Asmide86.Document)
> Encoding: 7bit
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