[iyonix-support] Re: Mouse pointer colour

Kade Hansson <kade.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ewen Pring wrote:
> > - Edge and Body are obvious, but what does the 'other' colour actually
> > do? Perhaps a help file could describe?
> >   
> The other colour is the 3rd colour in the 4 colour sprites that are used
> to define pointers (colour 0 is always the background.) It is used in the
> SWI OS_Confirm pointer, and is red by default.

Colour 2 (zero indexed) is traditionally not used because of a bug in early
Acorn hardware which caused it to be transparent in some circumsatnces
which I forget. It should be ok to use in all modern machines, i.e. Risc PC
and later.

Cheers
---Dave

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