Hiding cursor...

[Nyxojaele]

I've noticed that when I execute this simple code:

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mDevice->getCursorControl()->setVisible(!mDevice->getCursorControl()->isVisible());

the cursor will not actually change visibility until I move the mouse. A simple way around this is to follow up that line with this line:

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mDevice->getCursorControl()->setPosition(mDevice->getCursorControl()->getPosition());

Now, I wanted to use this code to hide the mouse when the Left Mouse Button is pressed, and show the mouse again when it's released, so I put it together like this in my EventReceiver:

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		switch (e.MouseInput.Event) {
			case EMIE_LMOUSE_PRESSED_DOWN: {
				mDevice->getCursorControl()->setVisible(false);
				mDevice->getCursorControl()->setPosition(mDevice->getCursorControl()->getPosition());
				break;
			}
			case EMIE_LMOUSE_LEFT_UP: {
				mDevice->getCursorControl()->setVisible(true);
				mDevice->getCursorControl()->setPosition(mDevice->getCursorControl()->getPosition());
				break;
			}
			default:
				break;
		}

But this doesn't work, yet if I copied the same code and applied to to pressing/releasing a keyboard key, it works.

Something I've noticed while trying to debug this is that if I remove the code to set the cursor visible again when the LMB is released, when I press it, the cursor is still visible, but when I -release- it again, it gets hidden! Which is sorta the opposite of what I want. It's like these hide/unhide events are being somehow delayed until the mouse button is lifted again, and only when this is applied to the mouse buttons, not the keyboard keys...

[Virion]

the cursor will not actually change visibility until I move the mouse. A simple way around this is to follow up that line with this line:
mDevice->getCursorControl()->setPosition(mDevice->getCursorControl()->getPosition());

Great, I was having the same problem. Thanks.

[shogun]

I mentioned this buggy behaviour some time ago. The best solution is to hide the cursor from the beginning and use your own cursor-image (drawing it with draw2DImage after the GUI).

[Nyxojaele]

Thanks for the feedback guys. This was only something I wanted to do temporarily anyways, so I'll just deal with it until I have things in place to put my permanent solution in place (cursor replacement)

[Acki]

the problem seems to be that the visibility is changed inside the event receiver (I also don't know why)...

I think the "boolean key" workaround would help with this...
or simply set a flag to true/false in the receiver and act on the flag changing inside the main loop...

[ultramedia]

boolean key idea doesn't work for me (still won't hide the cursor)...

Guess the fake cursor is the only way...

[MasterGod]

It's fixed in the SVN.

[dudMaN]

Most likely the event receiver is resetting it, so you need to set some kind of flag.

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 // In whatever class
 bool isMouseVisible;

 // In your event receiver
 if(keys[MOUSE_WHATEVER] == true) {
  isMouseVisible=false;
 }

 // In your main loop
 setMouseVisibility(isMouseVisible);

Hope i could help.

-DudMan