text: Q:
  
  Applesoft Basic, how to hide the flashing cursor?
  
  I’ve finally decided to build a monthly budget program for an Apple //e, coming along nicely. Right now I’m using the AppleWin emulator. 
  Anyone know how to hide the cursor in Applesoft Basic? I was thinking of either hiding it using a Poke or change the cursor character to a blank space?
  I know that VisiCalc does this, when you load the program, there is no flashing cursor until you begin editing. I want to do this same feature in my program. 
  Note: I don’t want to do it through the emulator as I will eventually move this to Apple hardware. 
  
  A:
  
  I found a solution for this here. Terminal control/Hiding the cursor.
  I was able to hide the cursor using the WAIT command, then grab the next character with GET.
  WAIT 49152, 128
  GET I$
  
  More examples here: Applesoft Basic Examples
  
  