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Changing cursor image

Started by Fuzztrek Oct 23, 2002 at 5:48 PM 3 replies 250+ views

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Oct 23, 2002 at 5:48 PM

Hello all, Is there anyway to change the cursor image using directx? Using windows is really slow, is there an alternative? Thanks! Fuzztrek ¬_¬

Bad_Maniac

Oct 24, 2002 at 2:27 AM

Using Direct Draw, just hide the cursor, and put a sprite on the mouse coordinates, then you can even animate it, and it will be as fast as your graphic card can blit...

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Fuzztrek

Oct 24, 2002 at 11:22 AM

mm.. i should have been more specific.. using direct3D?

kidding :D It should work for both d3d and dd..

Thanks so much!

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kressilac

Oct 29, 2002 at 3:29 PM

I implemented the cursor in our application, using Direct Input. If you acquire the mouse in FOREGROUND, EXCLUSIVE mode the widnows cursor will not be drawn, yet you can still poll DirectInput for the position of the mouse. When you get the position, you will need to draw a mouse texture to the screen. This should only require at most 2 triangles to accomplish and a tiny 16x16 or 32x32 texture. I''m using Renderware, so I used their 2D toolkit to accomplish this. If you''re not using a wrapper around Direct3D, then you will need to figure out how to display a texture in screen space.

Kressilac

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