getCursorControl()->setVisible dose not work.

[instinct]

Im sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im having the same problem and thought i would be overkill to start a new topic about the same subject

I want to hide my mouse cursor when the user has held down the left mouse button for 250ms and want to show it again when he releases it. However, it wont hide for some reason. Does anybody know if the code CuteAlien posted works? Im a bit scared of changing Irrlicht sourcecode so i'd like to know if somebody tested it with positive results.

[Alucard344]

i also have the same problem. what i want to do is, if left click is pressed, hide the cursor and when left click is released show the cursor again. but it looks like the cursor dont get updated if i dont release the click


i am using

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ICursorControl* cursor = device->getCursorControl(); 
cursor->setVisible(false); 

[CuteAlien]

Im sorry for bringing back a dead topic but im having the same problem and thought i would be overkill to start a new topic about the same subject :)

Don't worry - it's not dead, it's just sleeping :-) I wanted to look further into this anyway, I just couldn't reproduce the problem anymore last time I tried. But maybe with your new info I can.

You haven't by chance already written a small example which I can just compile and test to reproduce this?

[Alucard344]

i am not sure how i can send you a working project via the forum but its very simple to test it, just adding this in the "05.UserInterface" demo project

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virtual bool OnEvent(const SEvent& event)

//...

else if (event.EventType == irr::EET_MOUSE_INPUT_EVENT)
		{
			switch(event.MouseInput.Event)
			{
			case EMIE_LMOUSE_PRESSED_DOWN:
				device->getCursorControl()->setVisible(false);
				break;

			case EMIE_LMOUSE_LEFT_UP:
				device->getCursorControl()->setVisible(true);
				break;

			case EMIE_MOUSE_MOVED:
				
				break;

			default:
				// We won't use the wheel
				break;
			}
		}

the cursor does not become invisible, like if it does not get updated until you do a mouse up.
But, if i alt tab, keeping left click down and alt tab again now the cursor as diseapered and will reappear when i left click up

and sorry for my english, it is not my primary language

[CuteAlien]

Thx Alucard344, I could reproduce it with that.

I have added the fix to the svn trunk (my very first official bugfix - I hope I didn't mess up anything).

[instinct]

sounds good CuteAlien! Could you please read your inbox?

[shadowslair]

Hmmm... it`s not working if we use a mouse input event only. If we use a key input event it works as expected. So the problem may have sth to do with the mouseinput, right?