Cursor

[Cleves]

Hey all,

I wanted to ask if there is anyway to change my cursor to a custom one i made?

Thanks

[[dx/x]=HUNT3R]

You will need to add these lines to your WinMain function:

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WNDCLASS wcex;
wcex.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, "YOUR_CURSOR_FILE_NAME.cur");

then you create a new resource script file in your project and add the cursor to it and then a resource.h file and add it to the project. This works in MS VC++6, if you're using Dev C++ then I don't know what to do.

[[dx/x]=HUNT3R]

BTW, you do the same thing to add an icon to your project that will show up on the executable file. Except you do a

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wcex.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, "YOUR_ICON_FILE_NAME.ico");

[Cleves]

I use main and not winmain but that's not a problem but what i want to ask is if i can do it using the Irrlicht engine?

[niko]

Not yet.
You could make the cursor invisible, and draw a sprite at the position of your cursor in your drawing loop, but that's a little but unconfortable with windowed applications and applications with low fps.

[Cleves]

Would this option be available in 0.5?

[saigumi]

It is already an option in 0.41.

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//do this once
device->getCursorControl()->setVisible(false);
video::ITexture* myCursorPic= driver->getTexture("../../media/2ddemo.bmp");
core::rect<s32> cursorRect(1,1,32,32);

//do this in your draw loop - psuedocode used for locations
driver->draw2DImage(myCursorPic, core::position2d<s32>(CursorLoc.X,CursorLoc.Z), cursorRect, 0, video::SColor(255,255,255,255), true);

Tutorial 6 has more info on 2D graphics and has a good way of making an animated cursor.