Re: XY in DosBox (XP)

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 3/22/2004 08:41 PM -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:
> Hmmm... You click on the "desktop border that's showing". The desktop border
> that's showing. What exactly do you mean -- anywhere on the Desktop outside
> the box, or on the Toolbar of the box, or that picture-frame XP border around
> each window?
The dox box occupies roughly 80 percent of the screen. I have it all the
way to the right and all the way up top. That leaves a border of desktop on
two sides, and, as you say, the task bar at the bottom. Clicking anywhere
in that area -- desktop or taskbar -- does not solve the problem. But...
I'd been running the pif plain, which is to say without *cmd.exe /c
c:\editor.exe* in the Cmd line: box in the program tab. I added it. Now, I
still get two cursors on startup, but when I quit the program, then start
again, the second, blinking cursor -- the one I don't want -- is gone. Also
now, when I remove the cmd.exe line, I get the following: a message box
labeled *16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem with the message,
*C:\DOCUME~1\Michael\Desktop\XY.pif. The pif won't run plain, as before. (I
wonder if running it plain established the problem.)
At all events, I also tried substituting COMMAND.COM for CMD.EXE and
something interesting happened: the second cursor changed from an ocher
blinking block to a faint blinking underscore. Now both COMMAND and CMD
produce the faint underscore. The same palliative works for both, however:
quit and restart and the second cursor is gone.
> Do you have it set up like XWindows, so
> that the active app is the one that the mouse cursor is floating over? Ugh!

Robert, I don't know what XWindows is (are).
> Try this: Go back to the PIF or else make two icons, one LNK (launch
> w/CMD.EXE), one PIF (w/COMMAND.COM), until you sort this out. Launch the PIF,
> then RMB on the Xy's SysTray icon and "Hide Mouse Pointer".
Okay, did this. Still get the second cursor in both iterations. Again, same
palliative for both too.
> FWIW, I don't see this double-cursor behavior under XPPro ... I think it's
> something in the setup.
I'm assuming you're talking about ntvdm.exe here. I can't find a file where
this programs changes are stored. Perhaps its changes are in the registry.
Another question as well: the *defaults* that appears when you RMB, seems
to be a mirror of the settings you make in *properties,* but with a
different label, *console windows properties* instead of
*"C:\Windows\System32\ntvdm.exe" Properties* the title of the *properties*
choice.
All this still leaves the question: can I get rid of the second cursor
without quitting and restarting, keeping in mind that Martin gets the same
thing, roughly, with W2K.

Thanks for thinking about this.

Michael Norman