Changing of cursor type

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:44 pm

Hi all,
I cannot found in Irrlicht help some function for changing of irr cursor type. It is arrow by default. Well, some ideas for loading of custom cursors?

Thanks in advance.

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:13 pm

Currently there is no way to change the cursor. You can however hack your own cursor by getting an image and clipping it to the cursor position every frame. By doing this however, you will not be able to interact with GUI elements as it will act as though the image is below the cursor, so blocking it from clicking on buttons etc.

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:29 pm

I wonder whether is possible to use some windows functions like SetCursor.

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:47 pm

Definatly possible, not compatable with Linux which to me isn't acceptable. Irrlicht can support Linux so I think getting a way to do cursor images that is cross platform would be a good idea.

I'm having a think about it, I think that it should be possible to create a class like GUICursor or something. I think I can remove it from the event receiver so that Irrlicht doesn't think the cursor image is in the way of any GUI elements, I'll have to look at it.

XargoL · Post by **XargoL** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:02 pm

Like Tyn said, you could hack it like done in this tutorial.

DarkWhoppy · Post by **DarkWhoppy** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:07 am

Everyone forget about my tutorial?

http://www.phyer.net/whoppyarts/downloa ... cursor.cpp

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:04 am

Thanks all for the help.