Anyway to hide cursor?

CHUPACABRA · 09-17-2004, 11:38 PM

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 · 09-17-2004, 11:49 PM

Quote: 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, 12:17 AM

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

kreyzig · 09-18-2004, 12:40 AM

Quote: 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.

http://www.softexe.com/cursorhider.html

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CHUPACABRA · 09-18-2004, 01:43 PM

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

Magnezium · 09-21-2004, 12:07 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, 02:29 PM

Quote: 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, 09:08 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, 02:06 PM

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

Curiosity · 10-05-2004, 07:23 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().

Laidback · 10-05-2004, 07:27 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Curiosity

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().

All I can say to you is ...Destinator.....Xport.....Hibernation....Com Ports....When???

Curiosity · 10-05-2004, 07:34 PM

Heh. I don't know. I never got past the fix to make the ports show up in HyperTerminal and then to actually work right with it, and then gave up. I think Destinator is looking for real hardware ports or something. Is there a trial/demo of it that I can get?

Laidback · 10-05-2004, 07:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Curiosity

Heh. I don't know. I never got past the fix to make the ports show up in HyperTerminal and then to actually work right with it, and then gave up. I think Destinator is looking for real hardware ports or something. Is there a trial/demo of it that I can get?

You mean, you're the one who *hasn't* got it????