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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Development => Topic started by: kas1e on February 03, 2005, 11:38:36 PM

Title: os frendly cursor hiding
Post by: kas1e on February 03, 2005, 11:38:36 PM

hi all. how i can hide/show mouse pointer by aos3.x functions (what fucntion exactly need it) ? and how i can setup from my C code new mouse pointer ? (it must be system frendly way).

Title: Re: os frendly cursor hiding
Post by: Daedalus on February 03, 2005, 11:46:45 PM

Hmmm... Would it not be an easier approach to attach your own mage to the mouse pointer and then control it with the OS functions for setting the mouse position? It's a while since I've done it, but there are functions for setting the pointer position. Failing that, attach a 1x1 bitmap in colour 0 to the pointer, and it will effectively be hidden for your application. No idea about writing your own code though, would involve using blitting functions and a buffer to replace the parts of the screen you draw on with your custom pointer...

Title: Re: os frendly cursor hiding
Post by: Karlos on February 04, 2005, 01:45:18 AM

Lookup the documentation for intuition.library/ClearPointer() and intuition.library/SetPointer(). These functions allow you to change the pointer definition (and install your own) for a given Window.