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==== Cursor for the blind! (AREV Specific) ====
=== At 13 APR 2000 12:24:59PM Peter Dunlap wrote: ===
 
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In an effort to accommodate blind users of our AREV 3.12 database, I have been asked to find a way to change the blinking-block text cursor to a blinking-line cursor. It seems the software that reads screens to the operator (JAWS), is unable to track the blinking-block cursor used in AREV windows.



Does anyone know how this may be done?
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=== At 13 APR 2000 04:59PM Matt Sorrell wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Peter,



I can't think of a way to automatically do this, but you can write code that uses GETCURSOR and PUTCURSOR.  These let you modify the shape of the cursor.



It is a four byte variable, and documentation can be found in the R/Basic manual.



msorrel@greyhound.com

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=== At 13 APR 2000 07:49PM Peter Dunlap wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Thank you! Those functions should do nicely. It would have been helpful, if Revelation had placed a reference to those functions in their 3.12 R/Basic index, instead of only refering to the use of cursors in select lists.

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