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1993-05-28
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MN> Anyone have any code on hiding the cursor and then bringing it back.
MN> -+- Mike Normand -+-
I've seen many replies to this but all suffer the same disadvantage: they all
assume you know the size of the cursor. A little bit debugging BASIC reveals
what's up (by the way, you'll find it described in some good books): you have
to set bit 5 For the start line and the cursor will disappear since this value
is not allowed. To get the cursor back again, clear bit 5 again. Use this
solution, if you Really just want to turn on/off the cursor. CursorOn/CursorOff
do *not* change the cursor shape!!! and do *not* need an external Variable to
manage this.
The PUSH BP / POP BP is needed For some *very* old BIOS versions using CGA/
monochrome :-( display, that trash BP during an INT 10h. If you just want do
support EGA/VGA :-) and better, just push 'em out.
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Procedure CursorOff; Assembler;
Asm
push bp { For old BIOSs }
xor ax, ax
mov es, ax
mov bh, Byte ptr es:[462h] { get active page }
mov ah, 3
int 10h { get cursor Characteristics }
or ch, 00100000b
mov ah, 1
int 10h { set cursor Characteristics }
pop bp { restore bp For old BIOSs }
end;
Procedure CursorOn; Assembler;
Asm
push bp { old BIOSs like this... }
xor ax, ax
mov es, ax
mov bh, Byte ptr es:[462h] { get active page }
mov ah, 3
int 10h { get cursor Characteristics }
and ch, 00011111b
mov ah, 1
int 10h { set cursor Characteristics }
pop bp { ...and this, too }
end;