[squeak-dev] ioSetSursorARGB (was: VM 4.4 build nastinesses - part 1 of probably many)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Feb 12 13:10:34 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-12, at 04:17, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:54:08PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> 
>> On 11-02-2013, at 5:53 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Can anyone (Bert?) provide the intended effect and limits of ioSetCursorARGB() ? This is a new one on me and the implementations I see in the SVN tree mean very little.
>> Oh, I should add that the function is not declared in sq.h as delivered by SVN yesterday.
>> 
> 
> Background on ioSetSursorARGB is at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7224
> 
> This was for OLPC large cursor support, see the email thread at
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2008-November/002084.html
> 
> Yes we still need to add the function prototype to sq.h.
> 
> Dave

For testing, try

	CursorWithAlpha biggerNormal showWhile: [Sensor waitButton]

or, if you have an updated trunk image (or less than 5 year old Etoys image), try the neat

	CursorWithAlpha fromUser showWhile: [Sensor waitButton]

- Bert -




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