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Using the Cursors

  Each image display has two independent cursors available. In addition each cursor shape can be defined. The variety of possibilities available for various cursor forms and types defies a simple explanation here that would make much sense. The interested user is referred to the command TUTORIAL/CURSOR which gives a demonstration of the possible cursor shapes.
The cursor(s) are controlled interactively by a special device e.g. tracker ball, joystick or mouse. Detailed information on how to operate the cursors can be found in Appendix gif. In general there is a switch for each cursor to define its status ON/OFF. When a cursor is active (ON) its position can be read by pressing the key. To exit an interactive cursor command one normally has to switch the cursors off and press the key.
The commands associated with cursor control operations are:

SET/CURSOR - enable selected cursor
LOAD/CURSOR - load a programmable cursor
GET/CURSOR - read cursor positions
CLEAR/CURSOR - disable cursors


Pascal Ballester
Fri Mar 24 17:17:52 MET 1995