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Mouse Pointer Colour

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Nov 17, 2014 12:48pm Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts	Maybe a stupid question, but are there technical reasons why the default Mouse Pointer must remain the same hideous blue and green colour from the 1980’s? Wouldn’t it look better if the default was black and white like every other modern Operating System in existence? Yes, I know there are plenty of other things that people could be working on, but I’m amazed it hasn’t been ‘fixed’ yet. Don’t shoot the messenger ;-)

Nov 17, 2014 1:08pm Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts	Ugh! The bog standard black and white pointer has barely evolved from GEM and Windows 3.1 (etc). At least a nice blue pointer is distinctive. ;-)

Nov 17, 2014 2:05pm David Pitt (102) 743 posts	This is from my Iyonix from wayback, to give a black & white pointer. `REM >ptr_col` `REM Joe Taylor [iyonix-support] Re: Mouse pointer colour REM 10 Aug 2007 16:13 REM The words at 68, 72 and 76 REM are colour numbers of the form &BBGGRR00 REM which determine Pointer-colours 0,1 and 2. DIM palette% 80 SYS “Wimp_ReadPalette”,,palette% palette%!68=&FFFFFF00 : REM pointer edge palette%!72=0 : REM pointer body SYS “Wimp_SetPalette”,,palette%` `END`

Nov 17, 2014 6:11pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts	This is from my Iyonix from wayback, to give a black & white pointer. This being a total negative of the default ‘other OS’ colouring people might want to swap the values thus palette%!68=0 : REM pointer edge palette%!72=&FFFFFF00 : REM pointer body or for something less harsh edged: palette%!68=&55555500 : REM pointer edge palette%!72=&FFFFFF00 : REM pointer body Those values are &BBGGRRSS as per the documentation