Problem hiding Mac cursor

no-reply@allegro.cc (Runesabre) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:34:01 +0000

I use a custom rendered mouse in my game so I hide the regular system mouse.

On Windows I do a combination of scare_mouse and a show_mouse(NULL).

On Linux, I do a show_os_cursor(MOUSE_CURSOR_NONE).

On Mac, I can't seem to hide the mouse cursor regardless of what combination of Allegro mouse handling calls I make. I've had this problem with Allegro 4.2.0, 4.2.1 and the latest 4.2.2.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the Mac mouse cursor to hide?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Elias) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:36:08 +0000

show_os_cursor(MOUSE_CURSOR_NONE) should work everywhere, no need for platform specifics for that. You need platform specific code for the other way around though, since e.g. under Windows, you normally won't get a system cursor in fullscreen modes.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Hull) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:51:55 +0000

Does exmouse work for you?

Pete

no-reply@allegro.cc (Runesabre) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:51:51 +0000

I'll check out exmouse tonight, Peter and see what the results are.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Hull) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:13:20 +0000

Is this the same as this one
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/592589/688836#target
i.e. it only occurs in 32bit fullscreen?

I'm going to look into it. I think this came up a while ago, didn't it...

Pete

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[edit] Can you try the attached patch?