From: deleveld AT noord DOT bart DOT nl (Douglas Eleveld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Allegro and the mouse
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 97 17:44:37 GMT
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Hi everyone,

I've been using Allegro for my rather primitive gui.  I heard here
somewhere that you must hide the mouse before drawing on the screen.
When I draw onto a winddow, I first check if the mouse is in the window
and if it is not, then I just draw, and if it is in the window, I erase the 
mouse before drawing in the window.  That means that sometimes I'll be 
drawing on the screen with a visible mouse pointer, but not over the 
drawing region.  Is this dangerous? I haven't had any problems so far.

Thanks

Doug Eleveld