Re: ShowCursor(FALSE) should hide cursor!

Hiding/restoring a soft cursor during drawing was always handled in Windows
by the video driver/GDI transparently for the apps.
'Mouse droppings" were happening in MSDOS graphical apps.

"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> It was really important back in the day when video cards didn't support
> the
> cursor in hardware. A software cursor must be hidden before drawing over
> the area where it resides, else you can get an effect known as "mouse
> droppings":
>


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