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cariba135
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Mouse Cursor in Dos Program

#1 Post by cariba135 » 22 May 2018 00:08

Dear All, I have a program running in MS dos, which was operated trough a touch screen.

The touch monitor has failed and I have now installed a standard monitor , mouse and keyboard, but for an unknown reason the mouse pointer does not show on the screen. It seems to be working in the background but the pointer is sort of hidden.

Is there a way of how I can display the pointer please?

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sst
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Re: Mouse Cursor in Dos Program

#2 Post by sst » 22 May 2018 01:48

The mouse pointer is hidden probably because your are using the mouse driver that is designed for your touch screen. So it logically hide the pointer for a touch screen.
Maybe you can force it to display the pointer by some command line switch or manipulating the it's INI files.

Or better try another mouse driver.
you can find some DOS mouse drivers here:
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html

or google DOS mouse driver.

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