From:	"Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Getting back mouse in Allegro GUI
Date:	Sat, 1 May 1999 16:10:31 +0300
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Well, you could try to hide the mouse before changing mode.
Who knows, it may work

Marc Brooker wrote in message <372ad349 DOT 11188192 AT news DOT iafrica DOT com>...
>How do I get back the mouse in the allegro GUI. I am writing a program
>that when a button is pressed it changes the screen mode, color depth
>and clears the screen. After the process is finished it restores the
>screen mode that the gui was in, sends a MSG_DRAW message and returns
>D_REDRAW to the GUI handler.
>
>The whole gui readraws fine but the mouse cursor dissapears. I tried
>calling show_mouse but I got a SIGSEGV (for obvious reasons). Is there
>any way to get the mouse pointer back or should I restructure my
>program so it ends the dialog, does it's stuff, and restarts it.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.

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