From: Adam Ladds (aladds_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 12:29:32 PST
On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 08:17 PM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> <snip>
> There is no such thing as a 'cursor position' in NewtonOS when the pen
> is not
> touching the screen. There's no ubiquitous cursor, period.
>
> Some views implement a cursor-like function (the caret in text fields
> and
> stationary, highlighting the current menu) but until the pen is tapped
> there's
> nothing.
>
> And of course the pen being tapped is a penDown and/or penUp event.
> <snip>
Why couldn't you have a small window which is moved around by the mouse
and acts like a cursor, but not actually looking like one, or some kind
of sprite image that could be loaded and moved by a mouse? This should
*theoretically* be possible, as the "minispector" program uses a
non-standard window surround, so there must be a way of loading
non-standard sprites, however, it may have to be a box-shaped cursor,
but it should still work.
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