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removed the word "sometimes", maybe it was years ago but nowdays people use the word "cursor" to describe a mouse pointer and not the "text cursor" https://www.google.com/search?q=cursor&udm=2 |
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In [[computing]], a '''pointer''' or '''mouse pointer''' (as part of a [[personal computer]] [[WIMP (computing)|WIMP]] style of interaction)<ref name="nytimes cellphone">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/science/17map.html | title=The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=February 16, 2009 | access-date=December 14, 2011 | author=Markoff, John | ___location=New York | quote=[...] so-called WIMP interface — for windows, icons, menus, pointer [...]}}</ref><ref name="microsoft ">{{cite web | url=http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=68165 | title=Haptic Issues for Virtual Manipulation | publisher=[[Microsoft]] | date=December 1996 | access-date=December 14, 2011 | author=Hinckley, Ken | quote=The Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointer (WIMP) interface paradigm dominates modern computing systems.}}</ref><ref name="microsoft input technologies">{{cite web | url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kenh/papers/InputChapter.pdf | title=Input Technologies and Techniques | publisher=[[Microsoft]] | access-date=December 14, 2011 | author=Hinckley, Ken | quote=Researchers are looking to move beyond the current "WIMP" (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer) interface [...] }}</ref> is a symbol or graphical image on the [[computer monitor]] or other [[display device]] that echoes movements of the [[pointing device]], commonly a [[mouse (computing)|mouse]], [[touchpad]], or [[digital pen|stylus]] pen. It signals the point where actions of the user take place. It can be used in [[Text-based user interface|text-based]] or [[graphical user interface]]s to select and move other elements. The keyboard cursor may also be repositioned using the pointer.
Though it is distinct from the text cursor, the mouse pointer is
The pointer commonly appears as an angled arrow (angled because historically that improved appearance on low-resolution screens<ref>{{cite web|title=Document from 1981 reveals why mouse cursor is tilted and not straight|url=http://hacksandstuff.com/computers/why-mouse-cursor-is-tilted-reason_1234210.html|access-date=18 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217232416/http://hacksandstuff.com/computers/why-mouse-cursor-is-tilted-reason_1234210.html|archive-date=17 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>), but it can vary within different programs or [[operating system]]s. The use of a pointer is employed when the input method, or pointing device, is a device that can move fluidly across a screen and select or highlight objects on the screen. In GUIs where the input method relies on hard keys, such as the five-way key on many [[mobile phone]]s, there is no pointer employed, and instead, the GUI relies on a clear [[Focus (computing)|focus]] state.
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