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Vincent PENQUERC'H <vpenquerch@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Do you think a routine based on scare_mouse but with coordinates info
> would be useful to the lib?
Sounds good to me...
> I don't know for speed, maybe the coordinates testing would be slower or
> faster than always hiding.
I think that testing is such a trivial overhead, it really doesn't make any
difference at this level. Mouse cursor updates are a per-frame operation,
not per-primitive, so it doesn't matter how efficient they are (and a
bounding box test isn't expensive in any case).
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