From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niklas_H=F6glund?= <niklas@canit.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:46:20 +0200

Re: Text mode cursor

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:32:28AM +1000, Andrew Apted wrote:
> The character set for LibGGI text modes (& ggiPutc/s) is defined to be
> "ASCII compatible".  What the characters are in the range 0x80 - 0xFF is
> not defined -- it could be IBM cp437, or latin1, or iso8859-9, or even
> not usable at all (e.g. 7 bit terminals).
> 
> I know that doesn't help you much.  The best you can hope for, is that
> someone adds an extension which allows text-mode-using programs to query
> (& perhaps change) the character set / font.

OK.

> LibGGI text modes are not defined to have a cursor.  You should draw
> your own, since on some targets there won't even be a hardware one.
> 
> As for turning the standard cursor off, yeah we should add an option
> like "-nocursor" to do that.

I think this should be the default behaviour. A blinking cursor in the
lower left corner doesn't help anyone much.

-- 
						Niklas