curson(3G)
curson, cursoff - control cursor visibility by window
Showing IRIX 6.5.30 (default release). Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.
NAME curson, cursoff - control cursor visibility by window C SPECIFICATION void curson() void cursoff() PARAMETERS none DESCRIPTION curson and cursoff control the visibility of the cursor in the current window. The default is curson. Use getcursor to find out if the cursor is visible. SEE ALSO getcursor NOTE This routine is available only in immediate mode. BUG Cursor visibility is a global resource. The calls curson and cursoff control cursor visibility regardless of its position on the screen. If a process turns off the cursor, it will remain off until that process is killed or the cursor is turned back on by a call to curson.