Anyway to hide cursor?

**CHUPACABRA** · 09-18-2004, 12:38 AM

Is there anyway to hide the cursor until the mouse is moved?I use the touch screen most the time but if I play dvd s the cursor has to hide so the menu will go away.

**xBrady** · 09-18-2004, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by CHUPACABRA

Is there anyway to hide the cursor until the mouse is moved?I use the touch screen most the time but if I play dvd s the cursor has to hide so the menu will go away.

I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to write something up that would do that.

**blurp** · 09-18-2004, 01:17 AM

WinDVD and PowerDVD both autohide the cursor after a little inactivity.

**kreyzig** · 09-18-2004, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by CHUPACABRA

Is there anyway to hide the cursor until the mouse is moved?I use the touch screen most the time but if I play dvd s the cursor has to hide so the menu will go away.

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**CHUPACABRA** · 09-18-2004, 02:43 PM

cool it works great!!! Its verry nice to get a direct response!!

**Magnezium** · 09-21-2004, 01:07 AM

The way I do it is I used Visual Studio to whip up a "No Visible Pixel" mouse cursor with just a hot point. It works great for touch screen, but if I ever have to trouble shoot the machine and I use a mouse, I can't see where the hell I'm pointing!

Mg.

**SnyperBob** · 10-04-2004, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Magnezium

The way I do it is I used Visual Studio to whip up a "No Visible Pixel" mouse cursor with just a hot point. It works great for touch screen, but if I ever have to trouble shoot the machine and I use a mouse, I can't see where the hell I'm pointing!

Mg.

Can you post the code or executable? Thanks

**Curiosity** · 10-04-2004, 10:08 PM

I have a hider, but check your mouse control panel. I noticed a cursor set named "TouchKit Hide Cursor" in there that's all blank. I think the Lilliput touchkit installed it. I prefer the large inverted with my hider.

**DjBac** · 10-05-2004, 03:06 PM

This cursors is installed with touch-screen drivers.. But if you want to use the mouse??

**Curiosity** · 10-05-2004, 08:23 PM

I added the auto hider to my Compass because it already had a "start with windows" and is always running. If you don't want the compass part, just set it to COM0: and slide the transparency all the way to the left and it will skip all of it's drawing code.

If anyone wants C code to add to their software, just ask. It's as easy to use as ShowCursor().