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Using Windows Cursor

by Matt Huston · in Torque Game Engine · 11/15/2006 (7:42 am) · 3 replies

I am creating a windows application using TorqueScript and I would like to use the default windows cursor. I have done some editting in winWindow.cc, it works but causes the application to crash.

Tried...

case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
     // keep trying until we actually show it
     while(ShowCursor(TRUE) >= 0);
     break;
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Torque 3D Owner Lateral Punk
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#1
11/15/2006 (12:37 pm)
There is a "noCursor" flag for all gui controls that you can set to false:

new GameTSCtrl(PlayGui)
{
....
noCursor = "0";
}

that will make the cursor appear which is basically the same as the default windows cursor. Search for noCursor on the forums the find out more.

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#2
11/15/2006 (12:44 pm)
Matt -
i usually see that code as
while (ShowCursor(true) < 0) ;
or
while (ShowCursor(false) >= 0) ;

yeah - from MSDN:
Quote:
[the boolean argument] Specifies whether the internal display counter is to be incremented or decremented.
.. so yeah. try < 0 instead of >= 0.

Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#3
11/19/2006 (9:09 am)
The problem is that I would like to use the Windows XP cursor, what I am developing in TorqueScript is much like the Torque Show Tools or Constructor which use XP cursor without problem.