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Hi i was using setMouseCursor to change cursor icon but wasnt able to change cursor to more than one image.



am i trying to use setMouseCursor properly?

thx!


Log part:

If you want to change mouse cursor in "gameWin" depending on "something" I think your code should work.

Thx..
i noticed the mouse icon changes only when you move mouse over some window.
am i missing some update call after setMouseCursor?

If you want to change the global cursor, see CEGUI::System::setDefaultMouseCursor, Window::setMouseCursor sets the cursor that is only seen when mouse gets over that window.

Thx, i want to change the cursor only for the Root window and keep it default for all the actual windows.
Problem is setMouseCursor()
doesnt change it until you hover mouse over some window other than the root.

This sounds odd. In any case, have you tried invalidating the window? calling draw() on the cursor (force geometry redraw)? or perhaps even using System::notifydisplaysizechanged() to force refreshing the entire gui? Obviously you should not have to do this, but one of these may work as a temporary solution until it can be fixed in the CEGUI source.

It's implemented to only react to mouse enters surface and mouse leaves surface events. It won't work for the child windows (their surface isn't parent's surface)! I suggest you use setDefaultCursor instead.

Jamarr wrote:This sounds odd. In any case, have you tried invalidating the window? calling draw() on the cursor (force geometry redraw)? or perhaps even using System::notifydisplaysizechanged() to force refreshing the entire gui?

Thx I tried those but it didnt work.

Kulik wrote:It's implemented to only react to mouse enters surface and mouse leaves surface events. It won't work for the child windows (their surface isn't parent's surface)! I suggest you use setDefaultCursor instead.

Thx i understand. put the problem is that if you change the cursor for the window the mouse is on, the cursor wont be updated until you move the cursor off from that window.

Unfortunately I do not have time to debug the issue myself, and thus derive a fix. But you might also try injecting the current mouse position, or manually firing the MouseEntersSurface event to perhaps force the update.

The clean fix would be to alter setMouseCursor to check if mouse is over the surface and immediately switch the cursor if so.

Kulik wrote:The clean fix would be to alter setMouseCursor to check if mouse is over the surface and immediately switch the cursor if so.

Yep. Can someone post this to bug tracker?

cCj wrote:

Kulik wrote:The clean fix would be to alter setMouseCursor to check if mouse is over the surface and immediately switch the cursor if so.

Yep. Can someone post this to bug tracker?

Go ahead, you officially have my seal of aproval

Ok I did and CE responded back, that it, is solved in 0-7 tag. But when I download 0.7.5 it wasnt fixed there... So do I need to download 0.7 ??

Yeah, I think it isn't released yet. You can grab the mercurial sources and switch to v0-7 branch