Re: [AD] mouse pointer colors

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In reply to Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >`set_mouse_sprite' does not generate the default arrow bitmap.  That
> >happens in the (misnamed) `_set_mouse_range' function, called by
> >`set_gfx_mode'.  So the mouse code gets linked in anyway if you set
> >a graphics mode.
> 
...
> by using the trick with a
> constructor function in mouse.c setting a function pointer in
> graphics.c; the constructor is only executed if mouse.o is linked in, so
> the function pointer is zero if mouse.o is not linked or non-zero if it
> is. I believe the MIDI functions work this way.

I like the constructor thing better.  Care to do it?

> >  I think we should change `set_mouse_sprite(NULL)'
> >so it _does_ generate the arrow bitmap.  Like in the attached patch.

I've committed it, BTW.  Eric, I got rid of the underscore :-)

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