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Cursor Changed W/ CURSOR.COM Changes To Defau
DocumentID: 602777
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:29:37 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Changes made with CURSOR.COM are not holding. The cursor size defaults back to the normal size. Solutions: Note: These problems have occurred with the following programs: Carousel, Grammatik, Norton Utilities cursor program (SETDOS), Norton Utilities' NDOS.COM, Take Charge, DOS Shell, FDO (menu program), Direct Access, Power Menu.

CURSOR.COM changes the appearance of the cursor in Text Mode. Many other programs also change the appearance of the cursor. Menu programs are the most common type of programs that change the cursor appearance.

With menu programs, the easiest way to get around this problem is to create a batch file that runs CURSOR.COM first, then starts the program you want to run. Instead of calling the program from the menu, change the menu to call the batch file instead.

If this does not work with WP 5.1, you can also create a startup macro. To create a startup macro, follow the steps below:

1.      Press Ctrl-F10 to create the macro, give it a name, and give it a description.
2.      Press Ctrl-F1 and select the option for a DOS command.
3.      Enter CURSOR /xx as the DOS command (/xx is the CURSOR.COM code for the cursor you want to use). Press Enter until you are back at the WP 5.1 screen.
4.      Press Ctrl-F10 to stop recording the macro.

You now have the startup macro. The best place to put this is in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file as a SET command. If the startup macro were called CURSOR.WPM, the command line in AUTOEXEC.BAT would look like this:
SET WP=/M-CURSOR.WPM

One customer who had a problem with the cursor changing in WP had an 80x25 16-color Save Font text driver selected in WP Setup. Auto-selecting the text driver corrected the problem.

Another customer solved this problem by removing a line reading C:\MOUSE\MOUSE/1 from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The customer's mouse was not installed.

If you are having the problem in a program other than WP 5.1, there is probably nothing you can do to fix the problem. Also, when you use a dumb terminal, you will have this problem. WP resets the video after loading. Dumb terminals don't have video cards to read, so WP just assumes the default cursor.

This problem sometimes occurred in releases of WP prior to 03/30/90 when the user had a monochrome monitor. The 03/30/90 release was changed to preserve the cursor definition if no text driver was selected. Running WP with the Hercules card would preserve the cursor definition in all cases.

If the customer is using a program like ScreenExtender or Ultra Vision, CURSOR.COM will not work because these programs use the video card's graphics modes to simulate text mode instead of a real text mode.

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