i was wondering how i would go about displaying a cursor, i know that ive got to setup up the driver and all that, but i dont know how..ive already got protected mode, real mode and all that already setup.. any examples, code, or great tutorials would be greatly appreciated (preferibly in fasm).. thanks!

The best book I know of for mouse stuff is "Building a Better Mouse Trap" by Jeffrey S. Donovan. It's about 10 years old and deals with DOS and Windows, but it goes over a lot of the mechanics of efficient cursor sprite rendering, and it should be enough to get you started.

oh... a complete book about implementing the mouseinterface? how many pages is it big?

Wow... people write books for almost everything don't they? lol

I have writed a little answer (but you know it is gone), the book wa about 522pp If I remember correctly.


Also I sugest to try to doit yourself, time a go a teacher say to us make a programm for DOS (a icon editor), and that require a graphic interface, the others guys select to read a book called some like "powerfull graphics with Turbo C++", I decide to make it from scratch, I find the line algorith and a circle one, how to set up a simple resolution 320x200 If I'm not wrong...

The point was that I require to handle the mouse, and I do a basic way, als i Have used something that you will find normally in some examples handling the mouse, I have used a cycle or sleep for handle that the interruption is launched much times in a second by the way... a bad way . Now after I was trying to do a calculator and I take another time the mouse, but now instead of the loop or sleep I use time managament that is handle best the mouse events, I have handled to get mouse down, mouseup, mousemov, start drag, end drag and others fun events .


Also I recommend to read the sources of some OS out there that use the mouse .

redragon: look at interrupt 33h description (maybe it is 31h? not sure) first few services is all you need.

btw. if you was asking about building a mouse DRIVER then sorry, i couldn't make it out from you post.