Changing pointer glyph

I was trying to get xpm-mode to display different cursors at different times, and had a little trouble getting the pointer to change. I thought I would mention it here, as I'm not sure that the behavior is intentional. Based on the Lispref->Glyphs->Using Glyphs->External-Glyphs section of the documentation, I thought I should be able to pass an image instantiator into set-glyph-image; something like: (set-glyph-image text-pointer-glyph [ xpm :file "I://xemacs_macros//test.xpm" ]) And indeed, that changes the pointer over the text just fine on a fresh launch of xemacs. However, repeated calls to the same command (with different images) have no effect. I also tried making an image specifier from the icon, and using that instead but it behaved the same; I could change the pointer once, but not again. I'm assuming that this means that the specifier doesn't have a value for the global locale to start with, and so the first command works. After that however, for some reason it can't override that with newer specifications. I also tried setting HOW-TO-ADD to 'remove-all, but that didn't affect things at all. What I found that did work was to pass in an image instance to set-glyph-image: (set-glyph-image text-pointer-glyph (make-image-instance [ xpm :file "I://xemacs_macros//test.xpm" ] nil 'pointer)) Using image instances, I could repeatedly change the pointer. However, I noticed in the set-glyph-image doc string that an image instance isn't even listed as a valid input. I'm not sure why exactly an instance behaves differently from an instantiator, or if there is some extra command I would need to run to update to the new cursor when using an instantiator. If you could shed some light on this, I would be grateful. I'm also attaching a pair of small cursor xpms I was using for testing. Sincerely, Byrel _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta