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Win32Lib: Blinking Text Cursor?

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Jan 13, 2000
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Hi all,

Question:  is there an "easy" way to provide a blinking TEXT CURSOR in a
program?

In an app I'm writing using Win32Lib, I let the user edit horiz. & vert.
CENTERED text, &  because it's centered, I put it directly into a window
instead of a MLE box; so I made my own blinking cursor from a timer, & have
been making little handlers for it for various key presses, until it dawned
on me that maybe there was some kind of inherent cursor display/control
within Euphoria or Win32Lib. (I've been defining screen display positions
for text & cursor by using getTextExtent & getExtent(Window) for each line.)

I looked at Pete Eberlein's "WEE" editor as a referent, but couldn't see how
to use what he did.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Dan Moyer